Similar to the human brain .. Run the biggest super computer in the world!

The experts are the largest supercomputer in the world, able to achieve for the first time more than 200 million processes in one second.

The $ 19.5 million computer, designed to function as a human brain, received the central part of a million processors this week.

SpiNNaker can design many models of neurons in real time, more than any other device on the planet.

The supercomputer will help scientists better understand the impact of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, on the brain.

University of Manchester

Researchers at the University of Manchester have spent more than 10 years designing and building a SpiNNaker, each chip containing 100 million moving parts designed to simulate the functioning of neurons in the human brain.

University of Manchester

"We created a computer that works like the brain rather than a traditional computer, which is very exciting," said software developer Steve Forer at the end of the project. It's great. "

Biological neurons are basic brain cells of the nervous system that communicate primarily through the transmission of electrical "mutations". Neural computing uses large-scale computer systems, containing electronic circuits.

We can say that "SpiNNaker" is unique because, unlike traditional computers, it does not communicate by sending large amounts of information from point A to B, on a standard network. Instead, it simulates the massive parallel communication structure of the brain, sending billions of small amounts of information simultaneously to thousands of different destinations.

The goal of computer designers is to train up to one billion biological neuronal cells in real time.

One of the basic uses of computers is to help neuroscientists better understand how our brain works.

For example, SpiNNaker has been used to simulate real-time high-level processing in a group of isolated brain networks.

Source: Daily Mail