HMMT 2007 U29

A sequence $\left\{a_{n}\right\}_{n \geq 1}$ of positive reals is defined by the rule $a_{n+1} a_{n-1}^{5}=a_{n}^{4} a_{n-2}^{2}$ for integers $n>2$ together with the initial values $a_{1}=8$ and $a_{2}=64$ and $a_{3}=1024$. Compute

$$\sqrt{a_{1}+\sqrt{a_{2}+\sqrt{a_{3}+\cdots}}}$$