Supercomputers/Systems/SpiNNcloud
Germany · under construction · mixed
SpiNNcloud
Also known as SpiNNaker2 machine at TU Dresden
Operated by TU Dresden .
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Measured performance
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
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| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
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| Accelerator | - SpiNNaker2 neuromorphic chip (Arm Cortex-M4F cores, 22FDX) designed by TU Dresden with Manchester | TU Dresden | - | Reported | scads.aieenewseurope.com |
The read
Neuromorphic supercomputer being built at TU Dresden around the SpiNNaker2 chip, developed by TU Dresden's chair of highly-parallel VLSI systems and neuro-microelectronics with the University of Manchester (Steve Furber's group) and manufactured by GlobalFoundries in 22FDX. ScaDS.AI's project page says a 5 million core machine named SpiNNcloud was being deployed after chip bring-up in 2021 and 2022, to finish by mid-2024, with 153 Arm Cortex-M4F cores per chip; a July 2021 trade report described the target as 70,000 chips and 10 million Arm cores and planned 144 cores per chip. The two sources therefore differ on both scale and cores per chip, and no source fetched confirms completion, so status is under_construction as of the last 2024 evidence. A Dresden startup, SpiNNcloud Systems, sells the chip commercially. SpiNNaker2 builds on the first-generation SpiNNaker system developed at Manchester.
Timeline
- 2021-07 Announced source
Change history
- 2026-10-18 Added SpiNNcloud (TU Dresden)