The World’s Biggest “Brain"

A supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit board that together operate like a human brain.
Scientist have termed it as the 'world’s largest neuromorphic computer'. A type of computer that mimics the firing of neurons. But SpiNNaker doesn’t just “think” like a brain. It creates models of the neurons in human brains, and it simulates more neurons in real time than any other computer on Earth, according to the statement. Furber told Live Science in an email.

“Its primary task is to support partial brain models: for example, models of cortex, of basal ganglia, or multiple regions expressed typically as networks of spiking [or firing] neurons,”

SpiNNaker will continue to enable scientists to create detailed brain models. But now it has the capacity to perform 200 quadrillion actions simultaneously, university representatives reported in the statement.