As part of their research efforts aimed at building real-time human-level artificial vision systems inspired by the brain, MIT graduate student Nicolas Pinto and principal investigators David Cox (Rowland Institute at Harvard) and James DiCarlo (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) recently assembled an impressive 16-GPU ‘monster’ composed of 8×9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA.
The high-throughput method they promote can also use other ubiquitous technologies like IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine processor (included in Sony’s Playstation 3) or Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing services.
Interestingly, the team is also involved in the PetaVision project on the Roadrunner, the world’s fastest supercomputer
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