HumanBrainProject/ebrains-neuromorphic-job-queue-api

The project's defensibility is unusually high (7) despite its low social metrics (15 stars) because it possesses extreme 'hardware gravity.' It serves as the primary gateway to unique, multi-million dollar neuromorphic computing clusters (SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS) funded by the European Union's Human Brain Project. While the software itself is a standard job queue/API implementation, its value is derived from the physical assets it manages, which are non-trivial to replicate. Frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are focused on standard CMOS-based AI accelerators (GPUs/TPUs) and have shown little interest in the spike-based, asynchronous hardware this project supports. The main risk is not competition, but the end of institutional funding or a shift in the research community toward more commercially viable neuromorphic platforms like Intel's Loihi or IBM's NorthPole. As a 10-year-old project, it is stable infrastructure rather than a high-growth startup, but it remains a 'category standard' for the specific niche of academic neuromorphic cloud access.