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GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR NEURAL NETWORKS ON TRANSPUTERS (Source code and Reference)

NeuroGen - Genetic Algorithms for the Training of 
Neuronal Networks on Distributed Memory Systems
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NeuroGen implements a hybrid parallel algorithm using genetic search
and standard backpropagation to train neural networks on a transputer
cluster. The package includes several test programs with can either be
compiled to run on a transputer network or sequentially as a single 
threaded C programm.


Installation:
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Get the tarball from 

  http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/neurogen.html

extract it, cd into the directory, edit the Makefile for your need and 
type 'make'.


Documentation:
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The reference documentation for NeuroGen is my project report

  "Genetic Algorithms for Neural Network Training on Transputers"

It is available online in Postscript, PDF or HTML format from

  http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/neurogen.html


Feedback:
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If you encounter any bugs or miss any particular feature or just like
NeuroGen, please let me know. My email address is

  Bernhard Oemer <[e-mail]>

The QCL interpreter is Open Source(tm) software, so please feel free to write
your own ports and extentions. If you send me patches, I will most probably
include them in future versions and maintain them to the best of my
abilities. ;-)


Vienna, the 13th of May 2000

Bernhard Oemer