large SIMD nn machines, ASI

[Henrik Klagges]

Hello,

I wonder wether there are any other beta testers of the ASI Cnaps
machine out who might want to share some experiences. Specifically,
has anyone
    - implemented a non-local algorithm (CG, PCG),
    - implemented a good random number generator memory efficient
      enough to be put into node memory / what do you think about
      tables or host communication for an alternative implementation ?
    - thought about interfacing some hardware as preprocessor, pi-
      ping data in via DMA ?
    - found a job for idle processors (small net sizes)
    - liked the 1-bit weight mode
    - ported the debugger to Irix
    - (other)
?
Some of these questions should be familiar to other SIMD programmers
to ( I have the witbrock gf11 paper). Thank you for any hints.

Cheers, Henrik  (Rick at vee.lrz-muenchen.de)

H. Klagges, Laser Institute Prof Haensch, PhysDep U of Munich, FRG
+ IBM Research Division, Binnig group