Neuromorphic Hardware

• We're working the SpiNNaker chip, but hope to start using HICANN too.
• Typical VonNeumann machines have one (or a small pipeline) processor that goes really fast.
• Neuromorphic systems have lots of processors. The board in my office has 768, but we want to use one over the net that has 768,000.
• Each of these processors can simulate a lot (up to 2048) neurons.
• So, we get a billion neurons in real time.
• That's SpiNNaker.
• HICANN is asynchronous. So unlike SpiNNaker and all the other chips you use, it doesn't have time steps.