Next Year, A Supercomputer With A Human Brain Scale Will Be Present In The World

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JAKARTA - DeepSouth is a human brain-scale supercomputer being developed by Western Sydney University in Australia. Because it will greet the public next year.

DeepSouth is predicted to be able to carry out 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, so that one day this technology can help create a much stronger brain than the human brain, quoted from Business Insider.

The human brain uses only 20 watts of power to be able to process equivalent to an exaflop or one billion billion mathematical operations per second. But currently, researchers in Australia are building the world's first supercomputer called DeepSouth that can simulate networks on that scale.

Quoting Antara, DeepSouth is being developed by Western Sydney University. When it begins next year, this technology will be able to perform 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, rivaling the estimated level of operation in the human brain.

This ability is useful for better understanding how the brain can use small forces to process large amounts of information.

If researchers can solve this problem, then one day they can create a much stronger brain than the human brain. This work can also revolutionize human understanding of how the brain works.

"Progress in our understanding of how the brain calculates using neurons is hampered by our inability to simulate brain-like tissue on a large scale," said Sydney University's Director of the International Center for Neuromorphic Systems.

According totip, conducting neural network simulations on standard computers using unit graphics processing and multicore central unit processing is too slow and requires a lot of power.

"Our system will change it," he said.

Meanwhile, University of Johns Hopkins Baltimore researcher Ralph Etienne-Cummings who was not involved in the study, told New Scientist DeepSouth would be a new breakthrough in neuroscience studies.

"If you're trying to understand the brain, it's going to be hardware to do it," he said.

Etienne-Cummings said there will be two major types of researchers who are interested in this technology, namely those who study neuroscience and those who want to create a prototype new engineering solution in the AI sector.

DeepSouth is just one of many research projects aimed at creating machines that can compete with the human brain. Other researchers have also tried to overcome the same problem by creating a " Biological computer" armed with real brain cells.