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Neurogrid Computing - wouldn't it be nice

 
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:19 pm    Post subject: Neurogrid Computing - wouldn't it be nice Reply with quote

Stumbled onto this the other day - Neurogrid. Don't know if it would work with distributed computing, but it sure would be fun to try. I particularly like this quote from the bottom of page three:
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Just a few miles down the road, at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, a computer scientist named Dharmendra Modha recently used 16 digital Blue Gene supercomputer racks to mathematically simulate 55 million neurons connected by 442 billion synapses. The insights gained from that impressive feat will help in the design of future neural chips. But Modha’s computers consumed 320,000 watts of electricity, enough to power 260 American households. By comparison, Neurogrid’s 1 million neurons are expected to sip less than a watt.

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