Can the Movidius Neural Compute Stick be used as a GPU for Processing Seti etc. data

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Message 1954208 - Posted: 7 Sep 2018, 5:35:30 UTC
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but here we go.

Can the Movidius Neural Compute Stick be used as a GPU for Processing Seti etc. data?

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Message 1954215 - Posted: 7 Sep 2018, 6:43:34 UTC - in response to Message 1954208.  

I would think not unless some developer comes up with an application for it.
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Message 1954225 - Posted: 7 Sep 2018, 8:13:54 UTC - in response to Message 1954208.  

Can the Movidius Neural Compute Stick be used as a GPU for Processing Seti etc. data?

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After looking it up, I am not certain you can code anything for it. Instead you have to "teach" it what you want it to do. If I am understanding it right, it is a "pattern recognition" engine. I am not certain you could get it to do the kind of analysis we are doing.

That said, it might be able to do "pattern recognition" that would provide "results" that we ultimately want. But we don't do at this stage of the data analysis.

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Message 1954362 - Posted: 8 Sep 2018, 4:55:09 UTC - in response to Message 1954225.  

Then its a case of not possible at the moment, but possibly a useful tool in the future?

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Message 1954802 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 11:55:25 UTC - in response to Message 1954362.  

Then its a case of not possible at the moment, but possibly a useful tool in the future?

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Well, if neuronal net would be able to learn how to produce valid results for our SETI algorithm it would be remarkable result itself, IMHO. Another step to AI :)
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Message 1954887 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 23:35:41 UTC - in response to Message 1954802.  

If the Movidius Neural Compute Stick is mainly a pattern recognition/ visual AI system, then it can have other legitimate Astronomy uses.
Perhaps the following:-
* Galaxy classification
* Asteroid detection
* Kuiper belt object detection
Are just 3 that come to mind. There are probably many other uses.

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