SpiNNaker2-competition: Announcement of winners

In beginning of February the Jury met to select the two best out of 15 proposals.

The SpiNNaker2 Award is given to:

Emre Neftci and Tim Lui from UC Irvine with the propsal "Event-Based Multiple Object Tracking on a Neuromorphic Accelerator"

and to

Applied Brain Research around Chris Eliasmith from Waterloo with the proposal
"Real-time Visual Odometry for Autonomous Flight Control using SpiNNaker2"

Both projects will be funded for one year with a budget of 40k Euro each. Congratulations!

The Jury headed by Prof. Christian Mayr and Prof. Steve Furber further announces that the Jury had a hard job to select the two winners due to the high quality and exciting ideas of the received proposals.
The other applicants are thus highly encouraged to resubmit their ideas to the SpiNNaker2-Award in the next year.

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SpiNNaker2 im Überblick

SpiNNaker2-Award, Motivation

In cooperation with the Chair for Highly Parallel VLSI Systems and Neuromicroelectronics at the TU Dresden the Dr. Stefan Weisse Foundation sponsors a total of €80 000, split into a €40 000 prize each for the two most innovative ideas for using the SpiNNaker2 system. The project proposals shall demonstrate exciting and novel applications of the SpiNNaker2 neuromorphic hardware system. Proposals may be submitted by individuals or research groups worldwide.

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Details about the SpiNNaker2 hardware platform and information regarding the SpiNNaker2 Award

Information about the Foundation

The Dr. Stefan Weisse Foundation was founded in 2017 in memory of Dr.-Ing. Stefan Weisse - graduate of the Technical University of Dresden and co-founder of the company pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme GmbH. In addition to research funding the Dr. Stefan Weisse Foundation also promotes young students on a monthly scholarship to study electrical engineering at the TU Dresden, Germany.

Allegorie: integrierter Schaltkreis leuchtend in einem GehrinGehirm

SpiNNaker2---the heart of the SpiNNcloud

With the handover of the funding letter on 20th September 2019, the Saxon State Minister for Science, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, gave the go-ahead for the second generation SpiNNaker machine. SpiNNaker2 has been developed in the Human Brain Project by TU Dresden and the University of Manchester and will be deployed in Dresden as project “SpiNNcloud”. The full-scale SpiNNaker 2 will consist of 10 Mio ARM cores distributed across 70.000 Chips in 10 server racks.

Details:

The SpiNNaker2 Award honours outstanding concepts on usage of the SpiNNaker2 neuromorphic hardware system [1,2]. The foundation "Dr. Stefan Weiße Stiftung" sponsors for the first time an award in cooperation with the Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics from TU Dresden, Germany.

Following the design philosophy of the SpiNNaker2 systems, concepts should focus on real-time interaction/closed-loop operation and/or should be motivated by a latency and energy-constrained setting. Usage of the hardware accelerators in the SpiNNaker2 is recommended ^[3,4]. Realization of concepts in a one-year time frame should be sketched.

full description of the competition