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'Human brain' supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time
The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time.
[...] To reach this point it has taken £15million in funding, 20 years in conception and over 10 years in construction, with the initial build starting way back in 2006. The project was initially funded by the EPSRC and is now supported by the European Human Brain Project. It is being switched on for the first time on Friday, 2 November.
[...] The SpiNNaker machine, which was designed and built in The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science, can model more biological neurons in real time than any other machine on the planet.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday November 03 2018, @11:14PM (7 children)
It says they can simulate 10 mice.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Saturday November 03 2018, @11:20PM (4 children)
Or maybe one really smart mouse.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Saturday November 03 2018, @11:46PM (3 children)
... and then one really dumb mouse. Put them in a cage together and study them. What could go wrong?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @11:57PM
Ericson was a 33 year old man; he owned an ordinary house, an ordinary yard, and worked at an ordinary job. You might even say that Ericson was a quintessential example of an ordinary person. However, one thing differentiated Ericson from his peers, which was his well-known hobby of playing with children's toys; this fact earned Ericson much ridicule in his workplace.
A man was in a bedroom, playing with what looked to be a child's toy. "Shit! Those bastards! How dare they mock me for my hobbies!" he shouted in a room with no one else present. The man, Ericson, was aggressively punching his toy to relieve his frustration, and in his anger, he was not even considering that the toy might break. "I'll show them! I'll show them all! They're all shallow and worthless! There's nothing wrong with an adult playing with children's toys!" Ericson ranted and ranted, and punched and punched. Then, it happened.
Broken. The toy was broken. "Oh, no! No! I broke another toy! Ugh! Why are these things so fragile!? They just don't make them like they used to! Looks like I'll need to go shopping..." As Ericson contemplated the idea of picking out a new toy, he became very excited and lost himself in his delusions.
On the next scheduled trash pickup day, the driver of a car passing by Ericson's house spotted a naked woman's corpse stuffed into a garbage can on the side of the road.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Unixnut on Sunday November 04 2018, @12:09AM
Narf! :-D
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 04 2018, @10:34AM
Don't forget to send flowers to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday November 04 2018, @03:28AM
42!? Now what was the question?
Nuts to your white mice. :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 04 2018, @06:27PM
Of mice and men...