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A second of brain activity took 40 minutes to simulate

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Simulating merely one second of complex human biological brain activity required eighty-two thousand processors running intensely on the world's fourth most powerful supercomputer. It took the mammoth machine forty minutes of grueling calculation to accurately mimic what your brain effortlessly achieves in a single heartbeat.

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