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.
Details
- External ID
- 1367417702
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fly.exe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5194722008711248
- Tags
- computational-neuroscience, connectome, drosophila, gpu, mujoco, simulation, spiking-neural-networks
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- fruit fly connectome applications
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gpu-powered connectome simulator for a physical fly body
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
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- FLYBOX · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- awesome-fly · github · 2026-09-12 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- FlyBrain-HalfLife · github · 2026-09-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- A Flys Life · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- flycoinrh · github · 2026-09-10 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- 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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