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From: vlo@xydeco.siemens.com (John Vlontzos)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: iWARP and neural nets
Summary: warp processor for neural networks
Keywords: iwarp, backpropagation
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:44:57 GMT
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Backpropagation at least was very efficiently implemented on the
original Warp. I think they achieved 80% of peak performance with this
algorithm:

Pomerleau, D.A.  et al,Neural Network Simulation at Warp Speed:  How We Got 17
Million Connections Per Second, IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, July, 1988

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