Researchers at Manchester University announced on 2nd November that they have switched on the world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer. It is a computer that is built to operate as a human brain.
First introduced in the 1980s, the concept developed by Carver Mead, uses large-scale systems containing analogue circuits to mimic biological architectures present in the nervous system of human beings.
As such, this supercomputer called the SpiNNaker uses “a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards” that together help it operate like a human brain.
Remember the human brain is made up of about a 100 billion neurons that carry out thousands of trillions of calculations per second. The SpiNNaker, on the other hand, can only make 200 million actions per second for now.
