Paper on Parallel Neural Network implementations in NCS

[Manavendra Misra]

Forwarded from Arun Jagota:


Dear Connectionists:

The following refereed and revised paper is now accessible from the
Web site below.

M. Misra, Parallel Environments for Implementing Neural Networks,
Neural Computing Surveys vol 1, 48-60, 1997, 113 references
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS

Send additional references and comments to the author at mmisra at mines.edu

Abstract:
As artificial neural networks (ANNs) gain popularity in a variety of
application domains, it is critical that these models run fast and
generate results in real time.  Although a number of implementations
of neural networks are available on sequential machines, most of these
implementations require an inordinate amount of time to train or run
ANNs, especially when the ANN models are large.  One approach for
speeding up the implementation of ANNs is to implement them on
parallel machines.  This paper surveys the area of parallel
environments for the implementations of ANNs, and prescribes desired
characteristics to look for in such implementations.
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Regards,
Arun