Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biggest-probabilistic-computer

by rbanffy • 3 days ago

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m-hodges• 3 days ago

I absolutely love the photo of the computer at the top of the article. Not at all what I thought I was going to see from this headline.

anonymousiam• 3 days ago

It's not mentioned in the article, but this hardware architecture may be better suited for brute-forcing password/crypto/key cracking than traditional computing architectures.

rbanffy3• 3 days ago

Is there a paper on that? I’m not I see how.

spiritplumber• 3 days ago

Hari Seldon approves

rbanffy3• 3 days ago

Computational Sociodynamics will be a very promising tool.

edu_do_cerrado• 3 days ago

we all know the answer is 42

RiverCrochet• 3 days ago

In contrast, p-bits flip between 0 or 1 with a tunable probability.

Isn't this basically an ADC (except the tunable probability isn't an input voltage)? Is this kinda-sorta a new form of analog computing?

dr_dshiv• 3 days ago

When can I get an API key!

faangguyindia• 3 days ago

curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.

petra• 3 days ago

There's also digital probabilistic computing, with a processor working on AWS, and for the right workload ,claimed to be offering a very significant speed boost:

https://www.eetimes.com/probabilistic-computing-is-already-h...

Towards the end of the article.

rbanffy3• 3 days ago

Also, there is a tiny version in microSD format:

https://www.mouser.ie/en/ProductDetail/Signaloid/S-C0-00-1D?...

teleforce• 3 days ago

The original paper by Çamsarı and his team, also linked from the OP article [1].

[1] Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1,000,000 p-bits:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25313

v3ss0n• 3 days ago

Best LLM ever.

bethekind• 2 days ago

I'm ignorant. What problems is this good at solving?

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

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