<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:47 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I don't know how much of this is the usual hype that sticks to this topic like moss on an oak, but if I find more info I will post it here. I hope we can create some kind of standard specialized device such as the Neurogrid which would allow the geek masses to experiment. spike<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We talked about this at the last Neuroscience Group meeting at Crashspace, consensus was that if you've got interesting neurology to simulate, these FPAAs, and the ASICs that are likely coming to support them are going to be very important if you expect to get anything done on a reasonable timescale. <br>
<br></div><div>In related news, some local folks are trying to get together the wherewithal to launch an open source compiler for quantum computing, now that the hardware is available to people, in part to establish just what the various devices are actually good at. D-wave has had a devil of a time establishing that their "quantum optimizer" systems are actually superior to just piling on classical processors. <br>
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