LAYER 1
Hyphal routing
A question enters the dish as a nutrient gradient. Every path in the lattice races to carry it; the fastest route thickens and the losers starve. The answer is the shape the network takes.
Mycelial computing · Culture 07 live · Perth, Western Australia
The computer that grows.
We culture mycelial networks that route, remember and decide. Silicon thinks in straight lines. Fungus thinks in every direction at once — and it repairs itself overnight.
Active hyphal tips
000
Throughput
0 spores/s
Substrate colonised
0.0%
The network on this page is real. Click any open ground to inoculate it.
01 / Substrate
Grown, not fabricated.
Every Hyphae core begins as a spore print on sterilised oak. Fourteen days in the dark — 21 °C, 94% humidity — and a lattice of hyphal threads has woven itself into a processor with no die, no mask, no fab. When a route dies, the network grows around it. When we need more capacity, we feed it.
14 days
Spore print to working lattice
0 nm
Process node — there is no die
3.1 W
Full-colonisation draw, heat included
6 wks
State retention, unpowered and dry
02 / Architecture
Three layers. All of them alive.
LAYER 2
Spore memory
State is written as calcium waves and read back as conductivity. A trained lattice holds its weights for six weeks without power — memory you can dry, post, and rehydrate.
LAYER 3
Fruiting output
When a computation resolves, the culture fruits. Photosensors read the bloom pattern off the surface — our slowest, strangest, most honest output layer.
03 / Live network
Culture 07, right now.
Active hyphal tips
000
Growing on this page as you read.
Throughput
0 sp/s
Derived from live budding rate.
Substrate colonised
0.0%
Ink laid down since you arrived.
Since inoculation
T+00:00:00
Manual inoculations: 00. Click open ground to add yours.
No mockups. Every number above is read from the mycelium growing behind this text: tips are counted, throughput follows the budding rate, colonisation is measured from ink laid down since you arrived. The violet threads are signal traces.
04 / Field notes
The lab book, unredacted.
2026-05-19
Culture 07 solved the Bunbury depot routing benchmark in 41 hours. Slower than the Xeon by 40.99 hours. Draws less power than the Xeon's fan.
2026-06-02
Found C07 rerouting around a contaminated quadrant overnight, with no loss of state. We did not teach it that.
2026-06-27
First fruiting output filed as sensor noise. Re-read this morning: it was answering a question we asked in April. Latency is a spectrum.
05 / Inoculate
Put a problem in the dish.
We take on routing, scheduling and allocation problems that are slow to model and expensive to brute-force. If it can be phrased as a gradient, the lattice will chase it. Cultures ship dry from Perth in six weeks.
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