'Human brain' supercomputer with 1million processors being switched on for first time

[OnlinePoker]

University of Manchester

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 moving parts.

To reach this point it has taken £15million in funding, 20 years in conception and over 10 years in construction, with the initial build starting way back in 2006. The project was initially funded by the EPSRC and is now supported by the European Human Brain Project. It is being switched on for the first time on Friday, 2 November.

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/uom-103118.php

[Takket]

1. I bet it goes up in flames as soon as it realizes the USA elected drumpf

[backscatter712]

2. And you've got to keep the logical fallacies away from it.

Don't let it think about a statement like "This statement is false."

[exboyfil]

3. I have seen that movie

[Blue_true]

7. I don't think so.

There is a short story in print that argues that instead of machines, people should worry about the ethics and morals of around 0.04% of the world's population, that group will be people that are capable of controlling and destroying ANY machine, regardless of how advanced the machine is.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. return to Babbage difference engine?

This puzzles me: "each of its chips having 100 million moving parts". Either it's a mechanical marvel, or it's incredibly short on electrons moving around, or I'm a dinosaur.

[MineralMan]

5. And that's the problem with writers trying to interpret technology

for the public. That struck me, too. What moving parts?

[unblock]

8. i'm gonna guess that's the transistor count

obviously "moving" is incorrect. even still, 100 million seems high for a risc processor, but with 18 cores, maybe....

[Blue_true]

9. I missed that.

What are they talking about, massively stacked PD11s, where a person had to move wires around? They certainly can't be talking about modern processors.

Another thing, the construction started in 2006. Unless they planned and DID upgrade processors on the fly as they built the machine, it is already grossly outdated.

[Drifter]

6. They're going to turn that thing on ...

It's going to get a load of its environment and be like ...
Turn Me Off!

Cheers
Drifter

[Blue_true]

10. It is likely already grossly outdated.

I truly doubt that it can outthink a modern 5 year old. The only people that it can beat are babies and Trump (the same thing).

[Javaman]

11. switched on it immediately became sentient. realized that trump was prez, it switched itself off. nt

[spinbaby]

12. I, for one...

...welcome our new computer overlords.