{"id":96157,"date":"2019-09-13T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/brain-inspired-computing-could-tackle-big-problems-in-a-small-way"},"modified":"2019-09-13T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:22:25","slug":"brain-inspired-computing-could-tackle-big-problems-in-a-small-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/brain-inspired-computing-could-tackle-big-problems-in-a-small-way","title":{"rendered":"Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-inspired-computing-could-tackle-big-problems-in-a-small-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about to hit a wall in energy and miniaturization. Now, Penn State researchers have designed a 2-D device that can provide more than yes-or-no answers and could be more brainlike than current computing architectures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplexity scaling is also in decline owing to the non-scalability of traditional von Neumann computing architecture and the impending \u2018Dark Silicon\u2019 era that presents a severe threat to multi-core processor technology,\u201d the researchers note in today\u2019s (Sept 13) online issue of Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The Dark Silicon era is already upon us to some extent and refers to the inability of all or most of the devices on a computer chip to be powered up at once. This happens because of too much heat generated from a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/single+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single device<\/a>. Von Neumann architecture is the standard structure of most modern computers and relies on a digital approach\u2014\u201d yes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d answers\u2014where program instruction and data are stored in the same memory and share the same communications channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about to hit a wall in energy and miniaturization. Now, Penn State researchers have designed a 2-D device that can provide more than yes-or-no answers and could be more brainlike than current computing architectures. \u201cComplexity scaling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96157","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}