SpiNNaker
- We've got a small SpiNNaker board and have just gotten CABot1
running on it.
- SpiNNaker chips have 16 arm processors on them.
- Each processor runs a few hundred neurons in real time.
- The chips work together. We've got a 4 chip board, and should
get a 48 chip one shortly.
- They've got 10^5 processor setup in Manchester, and are hoping for a
10^6 one. We (and you) should be able to run on these boards over
the Internet.
- If the math unfolds correctly, we should be able to run a system with
10,000,000,000 neurons in real time. That's a lot more than the 100,000
we used for the FLIF CABot3
- We also need to run on the HICANN neuromorphic chip in Heidelberg.
- That's analog, but the whole process (writing a PyNN topology, hooking
up a virtual environment, and running over the Internet) should
work for that too.
- Finally, we didn't consider it when we wrote the proposal, but we
could also run on the High Performance Computing platform.