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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.westernsydney.edu.au)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tsonfeir@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Four grad students out there hand-entering NXML rows while squinting at AI enhanced SEM images should be able to get all 228T done by.... next quarter, right?

This is setting aside that bus capacity is the bottleneck vs. compute power and they have yet to demonstrate bus performance of a full 228T connections/second with implicit timing which, to my knowledge, has never been demonstrated in a system a tiny fraction of this size. Though that's not to say it's impossible, but while this machine is incredibly powerful the comparison to human brains is predictably inaccurate...