One Million ARM Cores Linked to Simulate Brain

[exfileme]

British researchers are using ARM cores to simulate the brain to get a better understanding of our organic information-processing system.

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[FloKid]

Smells like 8 million dollars a year, and one step further for humanity : )

 

[Guest]

Nothing can simulate my human brand CPU Cant overclock very well though and crappy integrated graphics

 

[Guest]

I do wish they plan to turn this into a distributed computing project. I won't mind donating some cpu power. I am currently running folding@home-gpu, so cpu is free up.

 

[joshyboy82]

So, it's not a human brain, it's one million cores linked together to simulate Amy Winehouse's brain.

 

[jhansonxi]

That said, the 1 million ARM cores will represent only 1-percent of the human equivalent.

That's probably more than most politicians have.

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]joshyboy82[/nom]So, it's not a human brain, it's one million cores linked together to simulate Amy Winehouse's brain.[/citation]
That would require randomly overclocking and underclocking them to simulate the upper/downer effect.

 

[JerseyFirefighter]

Holy shit... Im gonna go patent the brain and its uses as an external gpu jacked to your gaming platform of choice... Megagigbytes.... Gotta do it before apple patents it. Or worse yet...patents it 10 yrs from now and sues me for stealing their idea after the fact.

 

[JustinHD81]

Fubar? in this case I'm going to be picky, shouldn't it be Furber

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]joshyboy82[/nom]So, it's not a human brain, it's one million cores linked together to simulate Amy Winehouse's brain.[/citation]

I wouldn't attribute Amy Winehouse that much brainpower.

 

[Device Unknown]

But.. can it play Crysis? (had to do it) and who in the hell is Amy Winehouse?

 

[techseven]

[citation][nom]Device Unknown[/nom]But.. can it play Crysis? (had to do it) and who in the hell is Amy Winehouse?[/citation]

She is the one with all the wine in her house

 

[rebus_forever]

i think more important than can it play cryisis, im more interested in if we can make it think its playing crysis.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]techseven[/nom]She is the one with all the wine in her house[/citation]
Oh that explains everything!

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]brickman[/nom]Nothing can simulate my human brand CPU Cant overclock very well though and crappy integrated graphics[/citation]Can't Overclock? Apparently you've never tried Red Bull. Cocaine is kinda like Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking. It's awesome, but it'll kill your chip and costs too much to use forever.

 

[AbdullahG]

Amy Winehouse sounds like a nice lady...

 

[archange]

[citation][nom]rotsae[/nom]I do wish they plan to turn this into a distributed computing project. I won't mind donating some cpu power. I am currently running folding@home-gpu, so cpu is free up.[/citation]

Now, there's a thought. And while they're at it, why not use all the smartphone power available worldwide in an ultimate distributed computing effort? After all, they're ARM-based too. And at that rate, I wonder how long before SpiNNaker achieves awareness and tries to take over the world. xD

 

[guanyu210379]

Can use it to replace bots for online games? I wonder if I can use that for my WoW....

 

[ionut19]

This would not be possible with intel chips.

 

[feeddagoat]

Will this mean I could overclock my brain then?

@Device Unknown

My brain allows me to so I would this could only as a player rather than running it lol. Imagine if it could do both =O
Maybe this is another (covert) attempt at larabee for intel after coming to their senses that x86 sucks for Graphics processing lol.

@rotsae

Unfortunately the project wouldn't work if it took the folding@home model. Firstly it uses a different instruction set and secondly it needs many many many small cores for processing highly parallel small quick instructions as a whole. It would just take longer downloading each work unit to spend 0.00001 seconds processing it just to send the data back and recombine all the results. If maybe a VM was used to simulated 1million core machine then maybe it'll work but what would the user system requirements be?