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IBM has a customer for its neuromorphic chips, and it is using terms like "neurons per rack" to describe the system's capabilities:
IBM and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) today announced they are collaborating on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. The scalable platform IBM is building for AFRL will feature an end-to-end software ecosystem designed to enable deep neural-network learning and information discovery. The system's advanced pattern recognition and sensory processing power will be the equivalent of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses, while the processor component will consume the energy equivalent of a dim light bulb – a mere 10 watts to power.
[...] The IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System can efficiently convert data (such as images, video, audio and text) from multiple, distributed sensors into symbols in real time. AFRL will combine this "right-brain" perception capability of the system with the "left-brain" symbol processing capabilities of conventional computer systems. The large scale of the system will enable both "data parallelism" where multiple data sources can be run in parallel against the same neural network and "model parallelism" where independent neural networks form an ensemble that can be run in parallel on the same data.
"AFRL was the earliest adopter of TrueNorth for converting data into decisions," said Daniel S. Goddard, director, information directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Lab. "The new neurosynaptic system will be used to enable new computing capabilities important to AFRL's mission to explore, prototype and demonstrate high-impact, game-changing technologies that enable the Air Force and the nation to maintain its superior technical advantage."
Reprint and some more stuff.
(Score: 2) by snufu on Wednesday June 28 2017, @02:14AM (17 children)
Version 1.0, North, lacked some important features.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @03:06AM (16 children)
So, this is why there are no mod points on SoylentNews today? Or is it just me?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:11AM (14 children)
I am noticing that nothing is being modded up, or down. ACs staying at zero, trolls staying at +1, respectable users only at +2. Is SoylentNews broken again, or is this an emergency lock-down from the Huge pushback at the Breifbarf article?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:51AM (13 children)
Quick! Somebody mod this -1 Offtopic, since it both is, and that would answer the question. Unless someone has modpoints left over from the day before. Oh noes!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @06:28AM (12 children)
So it is true! No one from the admin team actually reads the comments. Or perhaps they all sleep in the arms of Cthulu. But Soylent News is darn queer of late. Has Breitbart exercised its option to buy? Are we destined to go down to corporate insuckuation as did the green site before us? Soylent minds want to know!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @07:20AM (11 children)
Oh thank god! Parent post modded off-topic!@ So some of us still have mod points? Mine are still missing. Shadow-banned, or glitch? Or Petya? But this is a Linux system, immune from NSA Microsoft day-ones. Or so I thought. Hmm, cmn32480 did always seem to be a Redmond fanboi. . . So, alt-right dark shadow censorship, worldwide virus on Windows, or TMB acting up again? Hanlon's razor, save me now!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday June 28 2017, @08:45AM (10 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @09:40AM (3 children)
So answer the question, FatPhil: did you get your mod points for the day, or is it just this one person you allege? This one person could be feeling all alone and in need of some comradeship!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @10:03AM (2 children)
Oh, and thank you for leaking even more about how much AC is not at all AC here on SoylentNews. Now I will have to go an wash my IP. But since you do know so much about this serial AC, and how things go on SoylentNews, what is the deal with mod points? Shadow banning? Alt-right Dark Enlightenment Censorship? Or did someone just reset UTC, again?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:46PM
The two things Dems love most are unmasking and surveillance. And OBSTRUCTIONISM. That's why you got unmasked. I don't know why they schlonged you on the Moderator Points, but I got some this afternoon. Everybody else is missing their Moderator Points, and I got my first ones. Even the Dems do the right thing, sometimes. It's good to be the President! #WINNING
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:53PM
There's no need to snoop - you have such a distinctive style. Not just how you write an individual post, but how you cascade your conversations. I can usually tell an AC post by butthurt too (which does leak the fact that you're not butthurt), in fact I can probably identify 4 or 5 AC posters by style now.
People having conversations with themselves that are not attempting to engage or illuminate the rest of the community do often fall under the remit of "Spam" moderation, so do not be surprised if someone does throw that grenade in your direction if you persist. Of course, inappropriate Spam moderation is an offence as bad as spam, so nobody should do that unless they are sure posts satisfy the criteria as listed in the FAQ up there ^--<--<--
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @04:54PM (3 children)
I don't know if you know that or are merely surmising it, but it would fit the profile of JTRIG revealed by Snowden [theintercept.com].
But I do have mod points, so there's no editorial/site conspiracy I can see.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 28 2017, @06:24PM (2 children)
Mine are missing today. I'm going with the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's a glitch.
(although if there was a conspiracy I like to think I'd definitely be one of the targets!)
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @08:33PM (1 child)
I'd go with glitch. A sanctimonious jerk like me would surely be targeted.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:09PM
Everyone's bad-boy self-image is certainly coming out. Original AC here. Mod points back. I suspect someone reset the UTC again. We will see what happens at 00:10 today. I'm telling you, it's Fake Time! If only we had a neural net computing platform, glitches like these would be a thing of the past.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:13PM (1 child)
And who signs in as AC and wonders where his mod points are. dumb.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @07:11PM
Not so, just posting as AC, so that no one will know that my user name could be "frojack". And it seems I am not alone. Curious.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:10PM
Because you logged in as AC, fool!
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.