{"id":84634,"date":"2018-11-10T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/worlds-largest-neuromorphic-supercomputer-activated"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:02:21","slug":"worlds-largest-neuromorphic-supercomputer-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/worlds-largest-neuromorphic-supercomputer-activated","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Neuromorphic Supercomputer Activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-neuromorphic-supercomputer-activated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpiNNaker was built under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/basics\/leadership\" class=\"\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at leadership\">leadership<\/a> of Professor Steve Furber at The University of Manchester, a principal designer of two products that earned the Queen\u2019s Award for Technology \u2014the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, and the BBC Microcomputer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real time brain modelling applications, and we have now achieved it, which is fantastic.\u201d \u2014 Professor Steve Furber, The University of Manchester<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inspired by the human brain, the SpiNNaker is capable of sending billions of small amounts of information simultaneously. The SpiNNaker has a staggering 1 million processors that are able to perform over 200 million actions per second.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/blog\/the-future-brain\/201811\/world-s-largest-neuromorphic-supercomputer-activated\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/blog\/the-future-brain\/201...-activated<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpiNNaker was built under the leadership of Professor Steve Furber at The University of Manchester, a principal designer of two products that earned the Queen\u2019s Award for Technology \u2014the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, and the BBC Microcomputer. \u201cThe ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}