From Open the Future via Boing Boing. Researchers at IBM have created a machine that has the same number of connections and operates the same speed as 1/10th of a mouse brain. The machine does not simulate the structure of the mouse brain. That's 8,000,000 neurons with 6,300 synapses per neuron and a firing rate of 1Hz. In order to accomplish this task a 4096 processor BlueGene computer was used with 1 Terabyte of system memory.