Speaker name: Prof. Steve Furber
Abstract: The SpiNNaker project, now offered as one of two neuromorphic platforms supported by the European Union ICT Flagship Human Brain Project, is a digital many-core computer incorporating a million mobile phone processors optimised for real-time brain-modelling research applications. The design of the machine is very much influenced by the biological application it is intended to support, which has a lot to teach us about how we might build more efficient, fault-tolerant parallel computers in the future.