SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer'

SpiNNcloud Systems says it is making commercially available a hybrid AI high performance computer system based on an architecture pioneered by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Arm processor.

SpiNNaker2 is based on the principles of the human brain, the company says, and uses a large number of low-power processors to more efficiently process AI and other workloads.

Specifically, the server board in a system carries 48 SpiNNaker2 chips, each of which has 152 Arm-based cores plus a variety of hardware accelerators, including distributed GPU-like units, all intended to boost neuromorphic, hybrid, and mainstream AI model processing.

The commercial system is designed to be scalable via a multi-rack setup, each composed of 90 SpiNNcloud server boards. According to the company, this configuration is capable of emulating at least 10 billion neurons. As a supercomputer also designed for machine ...