Human brain: supercomputers with 1 million processors on

The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer has been designed to perform processes similar to those of the human brain. It contains the incredible number of 1 million processor cores and was activated for the first time last weekend.

The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer has been designed to perform processes similar to those of the human brain. It contains the incredible number of 1 million processor cores and was activated for the first time last weekend.

The new Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNNaker) machine has one million processor cores that can handle more than 200 million actions per second. This success was made possible thanks to the support of £ 15 million, a design phase of 20 years and more than 10 years of construction. With the construction started at the University of Manchester School of Computer in 2006, the incredible number of 1 million processor cores and the incredible number of 1 million processor cores. The project, originally funded by EPSRC, is now supported by the European Human Brain project. This monster was electrified for the first time this weekend.

The Spinnaker machine can model far more biological neurons in real time than any other machine in the world. Suitable neurons are the basal cells of the brain that communicate with electrical "spikes" (roughly measured by the EEG). With a neuromorphic computer, we do not want to mathematically map this behavior, but simulate it as closely as possible to the behavior of origin. SpiNNNaker does not handle large amounts of information, unlike a PC. Instead, mbadively parallel communication architecture of the brain is imitated. Billions of small pieces of information are transmitted simultaneously to thousands of different destinations. It therefore looks more like a functional biological brain than a normal computer.

The simulation of one billion biological neurons in real time is targeted. This goal makes you feel much closer. In comparison, the brain of a mouse is composed of about 100 million neurons, but the human brain is 1000 times larger. One billion neurons look great, but only 1% of the human brain. Its 100 billion neurons exceed about 1 quadrillion (10¹⁵) Synapses in network. The new computer with a million hearts will help neuroscientists better understand how our brain works by enabling extremely large real-time simulations that simply overload other machines.