Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm to store and process information on the same physical platform

Date

Jul 9, 2015

Time

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker

Massimiliano Di Ventra

Affiliation

Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Series

TUD nanoSeminar

Language

en

Main Topic

Materialien

Other Topics

Materialien

Host

G. Cuniberti

Description

I will discuss a novel computing paradigm we named memcomputing inspired by the operation of our ownbrain which uses (passive) memory circuit elements or memelements as the main tools of operation. I will first introduce the notion of universal memcomputing machines (UMMs) as a class of general-purpose computing machines based on systems with memory. We have shown that the memory properties of UMMs endow them with universal computing power--they are Turing-complete--, intrinsic parallelism, functional polymorphism, and information overhead, namely their collective states can support exponential data compression directly in memory. It is the presence of collective states in UMMs that allows them to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time using polynomial resources. As an example I will show the polynomial-time solution of the subset-sum problem implemented in a simple hardware architecture that uses standard microelectronic components, and the solution of prime factorization using memristive elements. Even though we have not proved NP=P within the Turing paradigm, the practical implementation of these UMMs would represent a paradigm shift from present von Neumann architectures bringing us closer to brain-like neural computation.

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