Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103001

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140103001

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Hardware Acceleration for Neural Systems. To really understand how brains work, we need to simulate neural networks of a size similar to that of the human brain (100 billion neurons, 100 trillion connections). Simulating such a network on standard computers in not possible because of its sheer size. Several groups are currently building very expensive and proprietary hardware to solve this, but the output from these projects will not be accessible to other researchers. In order to make real progress in neuroscience, many more researchers need to be enabled to participate. To do this, the project will build a system from commercial hardware (FPGAs) that will cost only a few ten thousand dollars and it will make this design and software available for free.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 22-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $430,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation | Circuits and Systems | Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Other Keywords

Circuits and Systems | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits | Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation

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