The Human Brain Project is an European Research Organization focused on understanding the Human Brain Using today's new computational power. I am part of this international research group thanks to my involvement in the 2017 Young Researcher Event and 2017 Researcher Event respectively in Geneva and Lausanne.

It is the european project to gather data ,models and tools around a unique platform and leviate the power a supercomputer across europe. It is design to give researchers interested in the field, information on how to use some parts of the platform and how to create collaboration to run and share their data and results.

The events I attended to were designed to showcase some researchers work on the platform and to let us learn the tools together with the researchers that designed them.

During the course of 4 days, I have focused my interest mainly on the NeuroMorphic Platform and the NeuroBotic Platform. The first one is a platform which regroups two supercomputers with radically new and different designs. The first one called SpiNNaker is based in Manchester and the second one called BrainscaleS is based in Heideberg. In different they are creating new chip design to allow for ultra fast, large scale brain simulation. I gained now the ability to connect and run simulation on those computers.

The NRP is a simulation interface using gazebo that allows to simulate any physical environment and integrate any physical objects : houses, tables, balls, rats, robots, etc.. It allows for many ways to connect your simulated animals/robots to the HBP supercomputers -making it controllable by spiking neural networks- or any other scripts and Machine Learning interfaces. Removing the need to test complex Neural Networks on MNIST data or having to create robots to test it. It transforms a tedious process of creating the robots, developing the right controls and uploading/connecting the algorithm.
A video of the system is given here :