Founder Steve Furber | ||
Mission statement novel computer architecture inspired by the working of the human brain Website spinnaker.cs.manchester.ac.uk | ||
SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) is a manycore computer architecture designed by the Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group (APT) at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, led by Steve Furber, to simulate the human brain.(see Human Brain Project). It is planned to use 1 million ARM processors (currently 0.5 million) in a massively parallel computing platform based on spiking neural networks.
The completed design is to be housed in 10 19-inch racks each rack holds 100,000 cores the cards themselves holding the chips are held in 5 Blade enclosures and each core emulates 1000 Neurons.
SpiNNaker is being used as one component of the neuromorphic computing platform for the Human Brain Project.
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