Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!blekul13.earn!ORBAN From: ORBAN@blekul13.earn (Tom TOLLENAERE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: (none) Message-ID: <7805.9101101631@prg.oxford.ac.uk> Date: 10 Jan 91 10:46:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 55 Hi netters, I am compiling a technical report on scientific/industrial use of transputers and similar parallel computers (Intel IPSC, NCube, Cosmic Cube, etc...) for neural network research/applications. If you happen to be involved both in neural networks and parallel computers, please get in touch with me. I'm interested in * what machine do you use ? And in what language do you program it ? * what kind of networks do you run on the machine ? feed forward things like perceptrons, backprop, or more dynamic things like Hopfield, Kohonen networks ? * how did you do it ? i.e. how did you handle parallelism * are you happy ? i.e. how well does the application run ? Do you have any performance/efficiency measures ? * what do you use it for ? i.e. do you run simulations for basic network research ? Are you involved with research on a particular application and do you use the parallel machine just c'se its fast ? Do you have an industrial application ? If so, do you sell it ? What price ? Happy clients ? The idea is to get an overview of what people are doing with neural nets and parallel computers, how they are doing it, and how well it goes. When the report is finished, I'll post a note on the net, so anyone interested can get a copy. I'm looking forward to massive response; especially from the U.S. and from industrial users. Don't use the bulletin board, but contact me directly. Cheers, tom --------------------- Tom TOLLENAERE Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven BELGIUM - EUROPE email : ORBAN at blekul13.bitnet fax : 32 16 21 59 93 phone : 32 16 21 59 60 Acknowledge-To: