Human Brain Project

This work is funded by the Human Brain Project.
I went to the annual meeting earlier this month, which involved several hundred participants.
We're in the neuromorphic subproject, but there are projects in neural theory, neuro-robotics, mouse brain, systems and cognitive neuroscience, and others.
It's a 10 year project, and we've just started the third year. It's flexible, so people can still join.
One idea is to build a complete simulation of a human brain at the neural level.
The more accurate aim is to build infrastructure to support neuroscience research.
In particular, we (HBP) write code in pyNN (Python Neural Net), to specify a neural topology. We then run simulations. In particular, we're interested in closed-loop (virtual and robotic agent) experiments.
There are several common neural models to use. You can specify your own. We (MDX and the SpiNNaker folks) are currently focusing on Leaky Integrate and Fire models.
Other groups are focused on compartmental models. They can then use a slowed virtual environment and super computers to simulate full brains (big parts now).