{"id":114908,"date":"2020-10-22T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/million-core-neuromorphic-supercomputer-could-simulate-an-entire-mouse-brain"},"modified":"2020-10-23T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:13:02","slug":"million-core-neuromorphic-supercomputer-could-simulate-an-entire-mouse-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/million-core-neuromorphic-supercomputer-could-simulate-an-entire-mouse-brain","title":{"rendered":"Million-core neuromorphic supercomputer could simulate an entire mouse brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3MlOAru6Qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After 12 years of work, researchers at the University of Manchester in England have completed construction of a \u201cSpiNNaker\u201d (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) supercomputer. It can simulate the internal workings of up to a billion neurons through a whopping one million processing units.<\/p>\n<p>The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, exchanging signals through hundreds of trillions of synapses. While these numbers are imposing, a digital brain simulation needs far more than raw processing power: rather, what\u2019s needed is a radical rethinking of the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Von_Neumann_architecture\" target=\"_blank\">standard computer architecture<\/a> on which most computers are built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeurons in the brain typically have several thousand inputs; some up to quarter of a million,\u201d Prof. Stephen Furber, who conceived and led the SpiNNaker project, told us. \u201cSo the issue is communication, not computation. High-performance computers are good at sending large chunks of data from one place to another very fast, but what neural modeling requires is sending very small chunks of data (representing a single spike) from one place to many others, which is quite a different communication model.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 After 12 years of work, researchers at the University of Manchester in England have completed construction of a \u201cSpiNNaker\u201d (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) supercomputer. It can simulate the internal workings of up to a billion neurons through a whopping one million processing units. The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, exchanging signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114926,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114908\/revisions\/114926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}