SpiNNaker

SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) is a manycore

supercomputer architecture designed at the School of
Computer Science, University of Manchester to simulate the
human brain (see Human Brain Project). It uses 1 million
processors in a massively parallel computing platform based on
spiking neural networks.

SpiNNaker is being used as one component of the

neuromorphic computing platform for the Human Brain
Project. It can be used in the field of Neuroscience and
Robotics.
SpiNNaker breaks the rules followed by traditional
supercomputers that rely on deterministic, repeatable
communications and reliable computation. SpiNNaker nodes
communicate using simple messages (spikes) that are
inherently unreliable. This break with determinism offers new
challenges, but also the potential to discover powerful new
principles of massively parallel computation.

JNV Kollam C.S Guyz

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