Neuromorphic Supercomputer With 1 Million Cores Mimics the Human Brain

A European neuromorphic supercomputer project that aims to simulate an artificial brain using what’s called a Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) went live on November 2, courtesy of the University of Manchester.

Mimicking the Human Brain

The SpiNNaker machine has 1,000,000 neuromorphic processors that are inspired by the human brain neurons. Having 1,000,000 cores was necessary to simulate real-time brain modeling. Each of those processors is capable of completing more than 200,000,000 actions per second and has 100,000,000 transistors.

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