- Spinner 2 supercomputer works without a disk or operating system for unprecedented speed
- Sandia system uses 152 cores per chip to imitate human brain harmony
- With 138,240 terabytes of drum, spinner 2 fully depends on memory speed
A new computing system of modeling has been developed in the US state of New Mexico following the human brain architecture in the Sandia National Laboratories.
Manufactured by a German -based spin cloud, Spinner 2 stands not only for its neuromorphic design, but also for the operating system or its basic absence of internal storage.
In support of the advanced fake and computing program of the National Nuclear Security Administration, this system indicates a significant development in an attempt to use brain -affected machines for national security applications.
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Spinner 2 is different from traditional supercomputers
Unlike traditional supercomputers that rely on GPU and centralized disk storage, Spinner 2 architecture is designed to work more like the human brain, using the event -powered counting and parallel processing.
Each spinner takes 2 chip 152 core and special accelerator, which contains 48 chips per server board. A fully -formed system includes 1,440 boards, 69,120 chips, and 138,240 terabytes drums.
These figures point to a system that is made not only for big but also for a very different type of performance, depending on the speed in the drama rather than the traditional disk -based I/O.
In this design, the speed of this system is attributed to the fully maintained data in SRAM and drums, a feature of the spin cloud is important, which states, “The supercomputer is stuck in the existing HPC system and has no OS or disk. It produces data in SRAM and drum.”
Spin Cloud further claims that standard parallel Ethernet ports are “enough to load/save data”, which suggests minimal requirement of a widespread storage framework found in high -performance computing.
Nevertheless, the real implications remain speculative. The spinner 2 systems are still modest, still modest, between 150 and 180 million neurons, compared to 100 billion neurons of the human brain.
The original spinner was created by Steve Ferber, an important figure in the history of the arm, and this latest repetition is the commercial end of this idea.
Nevertheless, the real performance and utility of the system in the real world remains to be performed at the highest stake applications.
“The benefits of spinner 2 performance make it particularly suitable for computational needs demand for national security requests,” said Hector A. Gonzalez, co -founder and CEO of Spin Cloud, “emphasizing the defense of the next generation and its potential use beyond.
Despite such statements, whether a neuromorphic system like Spinner 2 can provide its promises beyond special contexts.
For now, activating the Sandia system is a quiet but potentially important step in the intersection of neuroscience and supercompoting.
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