vetta project

If Roadrunner is a bit beyond your budget, simulating neural networks with GPUs might be an option:

The next generation of Nvidia GPUs will support enhancements such as double precision floating point in order to make them more suitable for general purpose highly parallel computation. There will also be cards with no graphics interface [...]

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I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog.  One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for some course I did way back.  A couple of years ago I started using python [...]

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– Henry Markram in this article.
Maybe, but I suspect he will be beaten by people working on ANNs.

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“But we need to improve 106-fold or more,” says Denk, who estimates that this would shrink the three billion person years it would take to trace a cortical column down to about two years. “I’m confident in the end that we will be able to do it,” he says. “But I don’t know how long [...]

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You have probably all read about the 80 core chip Intel has been talking about at their current developers’ forum. In some ways it’s a bit like the 8 core CELL CPU that’s going into the PS3. The best article I’ve seen so far is here. They predict that 1 teraflop of [...]

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