Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!arms From: arms@cs.UAlberta.CA (Bill Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: 5 Giga Connections per Second Keywords: Opinions wanted Message-ID: Date: 30 Apr 91 21:06:06 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.UAlberta.CA (News Administrator) Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 20 uh311ae@sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges) writes: >I heard that neural networks hardware is advancing. Current specifications >lie in the range of: >- 5 giga connections / s peak >- 1 G conn. updates / s backprop learning rate >- 1 M connection capacity >- integer representation with 1, 8, 16 bits, signed/unsigned Adaptive Solutions Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon, announced a 64 processor chip that was supposed to do 12.8 Giga connections/second with 1 bit weights for feedforward use. Sorry I don't have more details. -- *************************************************** Prof. William W. Armstrong, Computing Science Dept. University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 arms@cs.ualberta.ca Tel(403)492 2374 FAX 492 1071