News Brain-inspired' supercomputer with no GPUs or storage switched on — SpiNNaker 2 mimics 150-180 million neurons

[Admin]

Sandia National labs has allegedly turned on its own SpiNNaker 2 server sporting a whopping 175,000 CPU cores, and 2.3TB of LPDDR4 memory.

Brain-inspired' supercomputer with no GPUs or storage switched on — SpiNNaker 2 mimics 150-180 million neurons : Read more

 

[rustbucket4245]

What if somebody trips over the cord?

 

[FunSurfer]

Brain power of a fly. Still long way to go for Skynet.

 

[Sippincider]

Wait, Brain-inspired??

"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky… try and take over the world!"

 

[lemongrassgarlic]

Looking at the first picture , apparently the supercomputer boards don't suffer from ESD.

 

[YSCCC]

Well, an interesting approach, but hey, my dumb brain is a brain and Einstein's brain is a brain, brain differs a lot also

 

[rluker5]

Seems to trail last year Intel pretty badly: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2135...l-out-hala-point-neuromorphic-research-system
But the efficiency seems greatly improved over the original Spinnaker that needed over 33x the power of the Intel system to run a bit slower.

 

[danger89]

Looking at the first picture , apparently the supercomputer boards don't suffer from ESD.

These are most likely facilities with grounding on the floor. So you will have an ankle band with grounding. Grounding yourself via the foot (ankle), rather than your arm (wrist).