SpiNNaker – A Spiking Neural Network Architecture
SpiNNaker – A Spiking Neural Network Architecture by Steve Furber, published by Now Publishers on March 15, 2020, is a comprehensive exploration of the SpiNNaker project, which has culminated in the creation of the world’s largest neuromorphic computing platform. This edition, comprising 352 pages, delves into the project’s two-decade journey from conception to construction, detailing its capabilities in modeling spiking neural networks akin to a mouse brain in real time. The platform, hosted at the University of Manchester, is part of the EU Flagship Human Brain Project and is designed to be accessible to researchers and students globally.
Readers will find an in-depth narrative that covers the origins, development, and deployment of the SpiNNaker machine, alongside the extensive software efforts that support its functionality. The book also highlights practical applications, including a SpiNNaker-controlled robotic exhibit at the Manchester Art Gallery, and discusses innovative approaches to solving complex computing problems using stochastic neural networks. Additionally, it offers insights into future developments, including the anticipated SpiNNaker-2 machine. This work serves as a valuable resource for those interested in computers, computer architecture, and neural networks.
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20 years in conception and 15 in construction, the SpiNNaker project has delivered the world’s largest neuromorphic computing platform incorporating over a million ARM mobile phone processors and capable of modelling spiking neural networks of the scale of a mouse brain in biological real time. This machine, hosted at the University of Manchester in the UK, is freely available under the auspices of the EU Flagship Human Brain Project. This book tells the story of the origins of the machine, its development and its deployment, and the immense software development effort that has gone into making it openly available and accessible to researchers and students the world over. It also presents exemplar applications from ‘Talk’, a SpiNNaker-controlled robotic exhibit at the Manchester Art Gallery as part of ‘The Imitation Game’, a set of works commissioned in 2016 in honour of Alan Turing, through to a way to solve hard computing problems using stochastic neural networks. The book concludes with a look to the future, and the SpiNNaker-2 machine which is yet to come.
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