Blue Brain Project 

The Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research initiative that aims to

create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain. The project was
founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Its mission is
to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of
the mammalian brain to identify the fundamental principles of brain
structure and function.
The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram—who
also launched the European Human Brain Project—and is co-directed
by Felix Schürmann, Adriana Salvatore and Sean Hill. Using a Blue
Gene supercomputer running Michael Hines's NEURON software, the
simulation involves a biologically realistic model of neurons[1][2][3] and an
empirically reconstructed model connectome.
There are a number of collaborations, including the Cajal Blue Brain,
which is coordinated by the Supercomputing and Visualization Center
of Madrid (CeSViMa), and others run by universities and independent
laboratories.