A parallel neuromorphic text recognition system and its implementation on a heterogeneous high-performance computing cluster

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 886-899

  Qiu, Qinru ^a   Wu, Qing ^b   Bishop, Morgan ^b   Pino, Robinson E ^b   Linderman, Richard W ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed architecture; Heterogeneous (hybrid) systems; machine learning; natural language interfaces

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECONDS; HETEROGENEOUS (HYBRID) SYSTEMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CLUSTERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; PERCEPTION AND RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

EID: 84875823054     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2012.50     Document Type: Article

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