A Parallel Implementation of the Tree-Structured Self-Organizing Map

  • Authors:
  • Anssi Lensu;Pasi Koikkalainen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PARA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Parallel Computing Advanced Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents how Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs)can be trained efficiently using several, simultaneously executing threads on a shared memory Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)computer. The training method is a batch version of the Tree-Structured Self-Organizing Map. We note that SMP type of parallel training is very useful for large data sets obtained from nature, the process industry or large document collections, since we do not encounter similar model size limitations as with hardware SOM implementations.