The first computer that combines High-Performance and Quantum Computing was inaugurated in Jülich, Germany on 17 January. Its new capabilities will be available to neuroscientists via the Human Brain Project’s FENIX computing infrastructure.

A look back at some of the best Human Brain Project images from 2021.

Researchers of the Human Brain Project at University of Amsterdam and University of the West of England have built a neural network architecture on the EBRAINS research infrastructure that can enable robots to effectively combine multiple senses for perception and navigation. The team, led by Prof. Dr Cyriel Pennartz, has now published the findings in the open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

The HBP and EBRAINS together with the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) invited the entire scientific community to join a workshop on the Future of Medical Data Sharing in Clinical Neurosciences between 9–11 December 2021. This event aimed at identifying and openly discussing all issues and challenges associated with data sharing in Europe, from ethics to data safety and privacy, including those specific to data federation, such as the development and validation of federated algorithms.

Researchers at Human Brain Project partner University of Granada in Spain have designed a new artificial neural network that mimics the structure of the cerebellum, one of the evolutionarily older parts of the brain, which plays an important role in motor coordination.

An interview with Giacomo Indiveri on how developers take inspiration from the human brain to make computers more energy-efficient and what the future of computing will look like

NEST Desktop has been presented to the scientific community in a publication in eNeuro, the open access journal of the American Society for Neuroscience.

In the latest issue of Science, Katrin Amunts and Thomas Lippert explain how advances in neuroscience demand high-performance computing technology and will ultimately need exascale computing power.

Katrin Amunts has been awarded the prestigious James Bull lecture and medal of the British Society of Neuroradiologists.

In an interview with MedNous, a European medical research publication, Pawel Swieboda highlights some key HBP scientific achievements and how EBRAINS will capitalize on those to further develop its Research Infrastructure.