{"id":24075,"date":"2016-03-29T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16-million-neurons"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:13","slug":"neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16-million-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16-million-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Neuromorphic supercomputer has 16 million neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16-million-neurons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) and IBM announced the development of a new Scale-up Synaptic Supercomputer (NS16e) that highly integrates 16 TrueNorth Chips in a 4\u00d74 array to deliver 16 million neurons and 256 million synapses. LLNL will also receive an end-to-end software ecosystem that consists of a simulator; a programming language; an integrated programming environment; a library of algorithms as well as applications; firmware; tools for composing neural networks for deep learning; a teaching curriculum; and cloud enablement.<\/p>\n<p>The $1 million computer has 16 IBM microprocessors designed to mimic the way the brain works.<\/p>\n<p>IBM says it will be five to seven years before TrueNorth sees widespread commercial use, but the Lawrence Livermore test is a big step in that direction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/03\/neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16.html\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/03\/neuromorphic-supercomputer-has-16.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) and IBM announced the development of a new Scale-up Synaptic Supercomputer (NS16e) that highly integrates 16 TrueNorth Chips in a 4\u00d74 array to deliver 16 million neurons and 256 million synapses. LLNL will also receive an end-to-end software ecosystem that consists of a simulator; a programming language; an integrated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62242,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/62242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}