[Beowulf] [tt] One million ARM chips challenge Intel bumblebee

[Daniel Pfenniger]

Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> 
> On 07/07/2011 10:13 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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>> http://www.techeye.net/chips/one-million-arm-chips-challenge-intel-bumblebee
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>> One million ARM chips challenge Intel bumblebee
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> 
> Now say it like Dr. Evil: one MILLION processors.
> 
> 
> How long is it going to take to wire them all up? And how fast are they
> going to fail? If there's a MTBF of one million hours, that's still one
> failure per hour.
> 
> Should be interesting.

The real challenge is they want to simulate a human brain
(~10^11 neurons, 10^14-10^15 synapses) with so few processors.
I guess in any real brain many neurons and even more synapses are
permanently out of order...

	Dan