Parallel Counter – Propagation Networks

The objective of this research is to construct parallel models that simulate the behavior of artificial neural networks. The type of network that is simulated in this project is the counter – propagation network and the parallel platform used to simulate that network is the message passing interface (MPI). In the next sections the counter – propagation algorithm is presented in its serial as well as its parallel version. For the latter case, two approaches are presented, one that is based to the concept of the inter-communicator and one that uses remote access operations for the update of the weight tables and the estimation of the mean error for each training stage.