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Related: About this forumNew Supercomputer with 1 Million Processors Is World's Fastest Brain-Mimicking Machine
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | November 5, 2018 07:07am ET
Scientists just activated the world's biggest "brain": a supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards that together operate like a human brain.
Ten years in the making, it is the world's largest neuromorphic computer a type of computer that mimics the firing of neurons scientists announced on Nov. 2.
Dubbed Spiking Neural Network Architecture, or SpiNNaker, the computer powerhouse is located at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and it "rethinks the way conventional computers work," project member Steve Furber, a professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, said in a statement. [Science Fact or Fiction? The Plausibility of 10 Sci-Fi Concepts]
But SpiNNaker doesn't just "think" like a brain. It creates models of the neurons in human brains, and it simulates more neurons in real time than any other computer on Earth, according to the statement.
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New Supercomputer with 1 Million Processors Is World's Fastest Brain-Mimicking Machine (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Nov 2018
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gay texan
(2,476 posts)1. Which at some point
Will probably become self aware and then we are screwed....
defacto7
(13,485 posts)2. But does it have a word processor and Solitaire?
ZZenith
(4,128 posts)3. And Free Cell, please!
littlemissmartypants
(22,812 posts)4. Kicking. eom