Fly.exe
Runs the complete released Drosophila male CNS connectome (165,122 neurons, 25.5M edges) inside a physical fly body, in closed loop, on one GPU.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: computational biology and chemistry software · 119 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▲ +17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- computational-neuroscience
- connectome
- drosophila
- gpu
- mujoco
- simulation
- +1 more
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Could you build this?
No Simulating the entire Drosophila connectome (165k+ spiking neurons and 25M synapses) in closed loop with physical body dynamics on a single GPU is cutting-edge computational neuroscience and GPU systems research.
What it would actually take: This architecture requires high-performance CUDA/C++ kernels implementing large-scale sparse matrix spiking neural network (SNN) dynamics coupled with a real-time biomechanical physics engine (such as MuJoCo or custom GPU physics). The hard part is achieving closed-loop sensorimotor latency (<10ms) while computing continuous neural integration across 25.5 million graph edges on single-GPU memory architectures. It demands PhD-level computational neuroscience, graph computing, and high-performance GPU optimization expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #72 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
- fly-self-driving · github · 2026-09-13 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- FLYBOX · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- awesome-fly · github · 2026-09-12 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- FlyBrain-HalfLife · github · 2026-09-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- A Flys Life · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- flycoinrh · github · 2026-09-10 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- amfly · github · 2026-09-14 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Human vs Brain · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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