Memcomputer

Post date: Jul 08, 2015 6:28:53 PM

the first brain-like computer prototype that bypasses certain structural limits of our modern electronics. Called the memcomputer, its the first computer to store and processes info simultaneously. 

So what exactly are these problems that our computers struggle with, but large memcomputers can solve in a flash?

Although it may sound pretty esoteric, but it's actually pretty simple to grasp.

Many important computer problems can be shimmied down to a basic skeleton like this one: If I have a giant set of numbers, how many of them add up to specific number, like 10? "These problems appear in many things we do nowadays, such as machine learning, robotics, scheduling, and optimization.

Instead of taking 10 trillion back-and-fourth runs, a memcomputer will run 10 million mazes. Imagine each maze and each back-and-fourth run takes a sluggish 1 second. Our memcomputer is done in 116 days, yet 300,000 years later a classic computer is still number-crunching.

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