Hardware Podcasts

Half-Human–Scale SpiNNaker 2 Machine on Cloud in 2024

EE Times Current · 3 May 2024 · 43m

What this episode covers

Professor Christian Mayr from the Technical University of Dresden discusses the development of the SpiNNaker 2 neuromorphic machine, which aims to simulate human brain-scale complexity with 10^14 synapses. He explains how the system's real-time, low-latency architecture offers advantages over GPUs for specific tasks like drug discovery and smart city optimization, while outlining the roadmap for SpiNNaker 3 and the commercialization efforts via the startup SpiNNcloud. The episode concludes with commentary from Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University on the implications of this large-scale cloud-based neuromorphic computing.

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early-stage companies

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Companies
SpiNNcloud, Technical University of Dresden, Johns Hopkins University, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, TSMC, DARPA, OpenAI, Rain Neuromorphics
Products
SpiNNaker 2, SpiNNaker 3, GPT-4
Chips
ARM
Also
Steve Furber

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