Context
A Western Sydney University-led, ARC-funded research infrastructure project to develop a reconfigurable neuromorphic compute system for brain-scale simulations.
Natalia Poliakova is publicly listed as a Partner Investigator on ARC grant LE230100034.
Delivery context
Complex technology programmes do not fail because of one missing tool. They fail when technical configuration, suppliers, integration partners, IP enablement, funding requirements and research priorities stop moving together.
DeepSouth required coordination across multiple interdependent delivery tracks in a fast-moving deep-tech environment.
My contribution
I worked across the technical and commercial delivery dependencies: helping keep research requirements, supplier and OEM options, systems integration, IP enablement and stakeholder decisions aligned as the delivery path evolved.
The work was not simply to keep individual tasks moving. It was to preserve a viable delivery path when multiple dependencies could not wait for one another.
What the public record says
The Australian Research Council reports that the project deployed the world’s largest neuromorphic computing platform, using 92 Intel Stratix 10MX FPGAs to support 100 billion spiking neurons.
“In a tightly coupled technology programme, orchestration is not support work. It is part of delivery.”
Public references
This summary was written by Natalia Poliakova. The public references above are the authoritative record of the project.
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