[…] this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they’ve simulated a cat’s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer.
The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory – 100,000 times as much as your computer has.
The Independant, “HAL’s bells: IBM makes ‘thinking computer’ breakthrough”