SpiNNaker

A million-core neuromorphic supercomputer designed to simulate biological neural networks in real time.

Steve Furber’s team at the University of Manchester built this neuromorphic powerhouse using 1,036,800 ARM968 processors. The architecture mimics the brain’s massive parallelism by prioritizing packet-based communication over traditional memory access. It currently simulates 1 billion neurons (roughly 1% of the human brain) while consuming a fraction of the power required by standard supercomputers. Researchers deploy SpiNNaker for large-scale brain modeling, low-latency robotic control, and testing asynchronous spiking neural networks.

https://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/