Evolved Machines, Inc., has installed a 10,800 core parallel computing facility with a nominal computation capacity of over 40 teraflops dedicated to the development of artificial neural circuits. Evolved Machines, which last year won a contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design and develop a sensor based on a canine’s sense of smell, will use the new computer processing capacity in the development of artificial neural circuits at the heart of a new generation of devices in artificial olfaction and vision (TR2, Oct. 29, 2008). “The complex mechanisms embedded in biological neural circuitry enables the extraordinary capabilities of the brain,” says Paul Rhodes, CEO of Evolved Machines. “Simulated evolution can be used to guide the selection and parameterization of these mechanisms in simulations of highly neural circuit fabrics, provided an enormous amount of parallel computing power can be applied. Our new facility will allow us to pursue such work, which is ongoing in artificial olfaction and invariant visual object recognition.”