PRESS RELEASE: PHOENICS KICK-OFF MEETING
Breaking Moore’s Law: New photonic computing project aims to speed up artificial intelligence computing power to petascale processing levels. The EU’s new 5.8 million Euro project using light to provide the ultrafast computing rates needed by artificial intelligence (AI) kicked off on March 31st. The PHOENICS project brings together world leaders in neuromorphic photonic computing to achieve for the first time energy efficient petascale processing powers with ultra-high bandwidth. This is the processing power required by AI to reach its full potential. The 4-year project is a joint research effort of the coordinating University of Münster (WWU, Germany) in
Ryan Hamerly argues in the current issue of @IEEESpectrum that "the future of deep learning is photonic" --- read on: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-future-of-deep-learning-is-photonic @RLEatMIT @MitQpg @GlobalNTT
Registration for our summer school "#AI for Optical Networks & Neuromorphic #Photonics for AI Acceleration" has been extended until June 15.
Register now to join & get excited about our hands-on #MachineLearning challenge: https://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/events/2021/summer-school-on-ai-and-for-optical-networks-neuromorphic-photonics-for-ai-acceleration.html
Our work on photonic convolution processing is featured in @derspiegel
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/neue-generation-von-computerchips-es-werde-licht-a-8957c75b-ef42-426d-9d99-377cdced7a92
The current state of research in neuromorphic computing is beautifully outlined in the video by @ChrisBarnatt #ExplainingComputers. We recommend the 12min watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFLeQlG2og
