Research Success – Computing beyond a million processors

There was news this week that Manchester’s pioneering contributions to advanced processor development are set to continue.

The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announced that they are to fund a 5-year £4.5M project entitled: "Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures: computing beyond a million processors" The project, in collaboration with the universities of Southampton, Cambridge and Sheffield, and industry collaborators ARM, Silistix and Thales, will see the construction of a million-processor SpiNNaker machine at Manchester. The work is intended to provide a general- purpose computational platform for the real-time modelling of large-scale systems of spiking neurons, and other applications of the architecture are also to be explored.