Hey guys, have you checked out this project called Neurona@Home? Their aim is to better understand the way neurones work in the humand body. The project simulates an artificial brain with 1,000,000 neurons.
 

Main Facts

• A human brain contains more than 10.000 million neurons with an average of 10.000 synaptic connections projecting from each neuron to other neurons.
• Even the mini-brains of some insects are indeed very complex: Honeybee brains contain around 960.000 neurons which give them astounding memory and behavioral repertoire for their size.
• It is known that the synchronization of the firing of large assemblies of neurons is related to odour discrimination in insects.
• In Humans synchronous oscillations are also present but they are usually related to higher-order functions such as attention, memory and conscious awareness.
• The origin and even the role of these oscillations are still poorly understood.

Model key issues

• We consider a model in which a set of excitatory and inhibitory nodes can activate or deactivate neighbor nodes according to a set of probabilistic rules. The cellular automata neuron is a very simple artifact with only three states: firing, resting or refractory but we are interested in the features of the brain that emerge as a consequence of its complex network structure.
• To this aim we should consider an artificial brain with 1.000.000 neurons, a number that exceeds the typical size of an insect brain.

Our project's simulations of the cellular automata brain in a random network should allow us to understand:

• The emergence of brain oscillations as collective firing.
• The effectiveness of artificial neural networks as discriminant devices.
• The role of the network structure of brains in information processing.

These WU's can require huge amounts of ram, up to 8GB! The researchers don't want people with too few RAM fail the WU's, so you need to ask for a invite key to join. Looks like a nice project!

Oh my I totally forgot the link
Here you go:
http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/

I viewed this one yesterday... not sure if we need to set up a team... let me know and I'll look into it.  I'll be in Seattle this morning (going to carpet bomb AB! ) KIDDING! However, I will be back later at home this afternoon and will check into it if there is enough interest.

I am intrigued..... saw an article about this a few weeks ago. It didn't say they were making it into a DC project.
Hmmmmmmm. I have the min RAM requirements...

Poked around and we need to have a invite.  Essentially that invite says we have proven to have the required hardware to run the tasks.  Most of us do... I hope.

All:
I just sent off an e-mail to the good Doctor. Let's see what we need to do to get started! I'll let you know what he replies.

Hmm... should've replied sooner... also have an email off for approval for the team... let me know who gets what first!
 

Here we go:

"Hello and thank you for your interest on Neurona@Home. It is much appreciated. 
  First to go the account creation page
 
http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/create_account_form.php
 
and then you can use the code
 
 *Removed* Please see a Team Captain for this code or the OP of this post. Thank you!!! 
 
 to create your account. Feel free to share the code with your friends or team. 
   The server provides only one or two WU at a time so you can run Neurona@Home with other projects at the same time easily. 
   For further questions use the forums or write an email to me, I will be happy to help you. 
  Regards, 
   Javier. "
 
Apparently the code only is to access the project, not to assign credit, so we're all set!!

Please send me the code via PM. Once I finish my F@H WU's, I'll be crunching this project.

No code posting... ;)
 

Tis okay!  It's a bear of a project and rather unique to set up a team for this thing.

I would like to give this project a try as well. Thanks.

I just checked my stats and I have 3 wu's that error-ed out of 63 running or completed. I wonder if that is within normal parameters for this project.
Still no team to join.

finished 7 so far on a 2600k at 3.5 Ghz, and all have already validated  for a  whooping total of 10 credits .
first one took a whooping 1 1/2 min.

I setup a team for this project. It should be possible to join now. Let me know if there are problems. Thanks.