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posted by martyb on Saturday November 03 2018, @10:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the The-Scarecrow-calls-dibs-but-Skynet-says-"too-late" dept.

'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.

SpiNNaker.

Also at CNN.

Related: Simulating Neuromorphic Supercomputing Designs
The Second Coming of Neuromorphic Computing
IBM's Latest Attempt at a Brain-Inspired Computer


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:38AM

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:38AM (#757469) Homepage Journal

    Every so often, one of these projects make the news. What I've never heard about is any specifics of simulations actually run on these systems--what kind of training data, how it's input--and the resulting behavior of the simulated brain. I rather fear that that means no-one has got that far yet, at least not with any meaningful results. Still, if it's only just been switched on, I'll watch this space, I guess.

    This [humanbrainproject.eu] looks like a good page to watch for news on any progress that is made.

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