Thursday July 07, 2011
Core Blimey:
Supercomputer Made From Smartphone Chips
A new supercomputer aims to simulate the brain using chips found in smartphones.
Low power processors designed by ARM will be arranged into ring-shaped nodes that connect up to one million CPUs.
From Thinq:
"The SpiNNaker project," Furber concludes, "aims to deliver cost-effective parallel computing resources at an unprecedented scale, with over a million embedded processors delivery around 200 teraIPS to support the simulation of a billion spiking neurons in biological real time. The scale of the system demands that power-efficiency and fault-tolerance feature prominently among the design criteria, and the result is a design that embodies concurrency at all levels, from circuit through system to application."
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