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SpiNNaker machine

'Human brain' supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time.The newly formed million-processor-core ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or 'SpiNNaker' machine is capable of completing more than 200 million million actions per second, with each of its chips having 100 million transistors.

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See also: Academia University of Manchester - Public research university

Details last updated 08-Dec-2019

SpiNNaker machine News

Artificial neurons implanted into the nervous system

Guardian - 03-Dec-2019

Researchers could model live neurons in a computer program and mimic them with 94% accuracy

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