Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

(spectrum.ieee.org)

82 points | by rbanffy 23 hours ago

11 comments

  • teleforce 16 hours 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

  • petra 17 hours 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.

  • RiverCrochet 19 hours 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?

  • anonymousiam 19 hours 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.
    • rbanffy 13 hours ago
      Is there a paper on that? I’m not I see how.
  • spiritplumber 19 hours ago
    Hari Seldon approves
    • rbanffy 13 hours ago
      Computational Sociodynamics will be a very promising tool.
  • m-hodges 21 hours 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.
  • faangguyindia 17 hours ago
    curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.
  • v3ss0n 11 hours ago
    Best LLM ever.
  • edu_do_cerrado 19 hours ago
    we all know the answer is 42
  • dr_dshiv 19 hours ago
    When can I get an API key!
  • bethekind 6 hours ago
    I'm ignorant. What problems is this good at solving?