{"id":186645,"date":"2024-04-02T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/world-first-supercomputer-capable-of-brain-scale-simulation-being-built-at-western-sydney-university"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:24:14","slug":"world-first-supercomputer-capable-of-brain-scale-simulation-being-built-at-western-sydney-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/world-first-supercomputer-capable-of-brain-scale-simulation-being-built-at-western-sydney-university","title":{"rendered":"World first supercomputer capable of brain-scale simulation being built at Western Sydney University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-supercomputer-capable-of-brain-scale-simulation-being-built-at-western-sydney-university.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude18 year 2023.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world\u2019s first supercomputer capable of simulating networks at the scale of the human brain has been announced by researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernsydney.edu.au\/icns\">International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems<\/a> (ICNS) at Western Sydney University.<\/p>\n<p><em>DeepSouth<\/em> uses a neuromorphic system which mimics biological processes, using hardware to efficiently emulate large networks of spiking neurons at 228 trillion synaptic operations per second \u2014 rivalling the estimated rate of operations in the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>ICNS Director, Professor Andr\u00e9 van Schaik says <em>DeepSouth <\/em>stands apart from other supercomputers as it is purpose-built to operate like networks of neurons, requiring less power and enabling greater efficiencies. This contrasts with supercomputers optimised for more traditional computing loads, which are power hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude18 year 2023. The world\u2019s first supercomputer capable of simulating networks at the scale of the human brain has been announced by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney University. DeepSouth uses a neuromorphic system which mimics biological processes, using hardware to efficiently emulate large networks of spiking neurons at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186645","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=186645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}