Mapping the Brain with the Theta Supercomputer

Researchers are using the Theta supercomputer at Argonne to map the intricate layout of brain neurons. "The basic goal is simple - would like to be able to image all of the neurons in the brain - but the datasets from X-rays and electron microscopes are extremely large," said Doga Gursoy, assistant computational scientist in the X-Ray Science Division of Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. They are at the tera- and petabyte scales. So we would like to use Theta to build the software and codebase infrastructure in order to analyze that data."

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