Re: genetic algorithms and distributed training

["Danke Xie" <danke@pubms.pku.edu.cn>]

Hi Aaron,

        I'm a student from Peking University, China and I
am very happy to work with you. I've come up with the 
idea of distributed training for some time, and have begun to 
implement the multi-threaded training in pdp++. In my 
code, I preserved the original framework and data structure
faily well. After it is debugged after several days, I would
like to share it with you and other pdp++ users/developers.
I hope it will save your time in developing the distributed
computation.

        Best wishes,
        Danke Xie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Octavio Lopez" <chemguy123@yahoo.com>
To: <pdp-discuss@psych.colorado.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: genetic algorithms and distributed training


> Hi all, I've been learning how to use PDP++ over the
> last few weeks and am just starting to get a grasp on
> this very powerful software. I'm wondering if anyone
> has done some work that they'd be willing to share on:
> 1) genetic algorithms, that is automatically
> configuring many different kinds of nets, testing them
> out, saving the best ones, and then repeating the
> process; and 2) distributed training, what i mean by
> this is an ability to run an instance of the software
> on many different computers over a network
> automatically and coordinate the training on the
> disparate machines. 2 is somewhat easier than 1, and
> admittedly both are not the most difficult thing in
> the world. I'm just wondering if anyone's already
> grappled with this or would be interested in
> collaborating on it because I don't like to reinvent
> the wheel if I don't have to.
> 
> -Aaron (the Octavio is fake)
> 
> P.S. Prof O'Reilly: cheers to you for making this
> software opensource and supporting the community
> actively through the mailing list. It's no doubt a lot
> of work but will likely result in quite a few new
> neural net researchers.
> 
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