Supercomputing...
IBM delivered the foundation of a brain-inspired computer today to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The lab and IBM plan to build a new supercomputer based on the brain-inspired technology, IBM said.
Computer scientists at Livermore plan to begin trying out the $1 million device on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reports, according to fortune.com.
The neural network-mimicking array consists of 16 computer chips, called IBM TrueNorth, that in total contain a million "programmable neurons," and 256 times as many electronic equivalents of synaptic connections, fortune.com reported.
The technology represents a fundamental departure from the computer design of the past 70 years. It could be a powerful complement in the development of new supercomputers able to perform at speeds 50 times (or two orders of magnitude) faster than today's systems, IBM said.
For more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-ibm-120000661.html
Photo: IBM, fortune.com.
The foundation for the new IBM supercomputer.
IBM delivered the foundation of a brain-inspired computer today to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The lab and IBM plan to build a new supercomputer based on the brain-inspired technology, IBM said.
Computer scientists at Livermore plan to begin trying out the $1 million device on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reports, according to fortune.com.
The neural network-mimicking array consists of 16 computer chips, called IBM TrueNorth, that in total contain a million "programmable neurons," and 256 times as many electronic equivalents of synaptic connections, fortune.com reported.
The technology represents a fundamental departure from the computer design of the past 70 years. It could be a powerful complement in the development of new supercomputers able to perform at speeds 50 times (or two orders of magnitude) faster than today's systems, IBM said.
For more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-ibm-120000661.html
Photo: IBM, fortune.com.
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