BIG BRAIN RECLASSIFICATION PROJECT
The Big Brain is being reclassified with an official origin dating to 2002 when the first brain was designed and built with Parallax processors. The following decade saw a continual upward spiral of more powerful brains with the use of more processors and a changeover to a new multi-core chip.
The first historical brain was built inside a humanoid robot to control arms, legs, head and torso. The Humanoid Brain HB series had up to five processors initially, built with OEM kits and other boards. Starting with one processor, others were added step by step. These processors were experimental in function, and the first parallel systems were built using a one wire party line interface.
Each processor was a time shared collection of simplistic neurons. Each simplistic neuron represented one input or output. While all processors could compute in parallel, communications was in serial. Early processors were single core, however the first brains created held up to five core processors that followed rules of talk and listen with master and slaves. This later progressed to independents where each processor was treated individually. There was no concept of chip enhancement at that time and processor numbers, although relatively low by today's Big Brain project standards, were huge and climbed above 20 with the BSS machine brain.
One goal of the Reclassification Project is to list each brain, the number of processors, and the date in operation for statistical data plots. This blog will serve as a data collection point for this enormous project. The Genealogy Project has listed names of brains and the number of chips. This data must be used to extrapolate the dates of operation and the number of processors that were in effect. This will be an ongoing project and will eventually "catch up" to current day where it could be maintained.
Data
Data includes: Processor Name, No. Chips, No. Processors and Date Operational
BRAIN NAME CHIPS CORE/COG PROCESSORS DATE
Humanoid Toddler V1 001 BS2 001 00001
Humanoid Toddler V2 001 PSC 001 00001
Humanoid Can Man V1 001 BS2 001 00001
Humanoid Can Man V2 002 BS2 002 00002
Humanoid Can Man V3 003 BS2 003 00003
Humanoid Can Man V5 005 BS2 005 00005
Tertiary Adjunct 01 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 02 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 03 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 04 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 05 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 06 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 07 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 08 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 09 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 10 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 11 of 12
Tertiary Adjunct 12 of 12
Tertiary Brain 014 Prop 112 112
Intermediate Tertiary Adjunct 008 Prop
Tertiary 20 020 Prop 160
BASIC Stamp Supercomputer 020 BS2 020 020
TriCore Stamp Supercomputer 003 BS1 003 003
to be continued...
