IBM is starting to create the world's first neuromorphic supercomputer

According to the publication TechXplore, IBM in conjunction with the US Air Force Research Laboratory began work on the construction of the world's first neuromorphic computer system. The new system will be an artificial intelligence that will work on the principles of a real neural network, like the work of a neural network of the human brain.

The system is called the TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System, and its foundation will, according to IBM representatives, have several compute nodes, each of which has 64 neuromorphic processors IBM TrueNorth. At the same time, each of the nodes consists of 64 million artificial neurons and 16 billion artificial synapses.

The new artificial intelligence system TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System will be an extremely flexible platform. It can both process data coming from different sources and process parallel processing of the same source data stream. According to the authors,

"Each TrueNorth core will become part of a single distributed neural network that will operate on the basis of events that occur in the system. It turns out that each of the chips will not need a clock generator, unlike traditional processor blocks. At the same time, when one of the processors fails, the rest of the neural network continues its work. It's worth noting that each TrueNorth core uses only 10 watts of power in maximum performance mode. The IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System will be able to efficiently convert real-time data, such as images, video or audio, from different sources. "

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