Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

m-hodges

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

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.

spiritplumber

Hari Seldon approves

edu_do_cerrado

we all know the answer is 42

RiverCrochet

> 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

When can I get an API key!

faangguyindia

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

petra

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.

teleforce

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