Comment on IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain DoesparentComments−apw12yOne possibility is to use the neuromorphic chips as souped-up branch predictors -- instead of predicting one bit, as in a branch predictor, predict all bits relevant for speculative execution. This can effect large-scale automatic parallelization.See this paper at ASPLOS '14 for details:http://hips.seas.harvard.edu/content/asc-automatically-scala...
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One possibility is to use the neuromorphic chips as souped-up branch predictors -- instead of predicting one bit, as in a branch predictor, predict all bits relevant for speculative execution. This can effect large-scale automatic parallelization.
See this paper at ASPLOS '14 for details:
http://hips.seas.harvard.edu/content/asc-automatically-scala...