But those are all engineering projects.. In a way, it&#x27;s a lot easier to parallelize work on scientific project than engineering project. Competition from the industry actually helped Human Genome Project.<p>Anyway, my bet is that we don&#x27;t actually need a very big supercomputer to emulate what brain does. We just don&#x27;t yet know why it is so efficient, we don&#x27;t know <i>the trick(s)</i>. And I think, there is a possibility, as Human Brain Project will evolve, we will get better at figuring out what really needs to be simulated and what is just a fluff. And this will make possible to scale it up even on current hardware. Anyway, at least that&#x27;s why I think it should be supported.