From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu Mon Aug 8 14:40:00 1994 Received: from thorin.uthscsa.edu for raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu by www.ccl.net (8.6.9/930601.1506) id NAA12372; Mon, 8 Aug 1994 13:36:12 -0400 Received: from bioc01.uthscsa.edu by thorin.uthscsa.edu with SMTP; Mon, 8 Aug 1994 12:44:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bioc01.uthscsa.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04653; Mon, 8 Aug 94 12:42:01 CDT From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN) Message-Id: <9408081742.AA04653@bioc01.uthscsa.edu> Subject: Re: CCL:Neural Net software To: cmanly@mail.nrgn.com (Charles Manly) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 12:41:57 -0500 (CDT) Cc: chemistry@ccl.net In-Reply-To: <9408081556.AA09102@uu9.psi.com> from "Charles Manly" at Aug 8, 94 11:47:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL3] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2966 Charles: > Are there any recommendations for Neural Net software for UNIX (specifically > SGI)? The neural network simulator I have used most is called XERION and is available free-of-charge: (a) You can get the source from the anon. FTP site: ai.toronto.edu Look in pub/xerion. (b) There is a mailing list for people using xerion. See the README file for more information. (c) Questions, comments and bugs should be sent to xerion@ai.toronto.edu (d) Here is some additional information on XERION: Xerion is a Neural Network simulator developed and used by the connectionist group at the University of Toronto. This release (Version 3.1) contains libraries of routines for building networks, and graphically displaying them. As well it contains an optimization package which can train nets using several different methods including conjugate gradient. It is written in C and uses the X window system to do the graphics. It is being given away free of charge to Canadian industry and researchers (and anyone else who wants it). It comes with NO warranty. This distribution contains all the libraries used to build the simulators as well as several simulators built using them (Back Propagation, Recurrent Back Propagation, Boltzmann Machine, Mean Field Theory, Free Energy Manipulation, Kohonnen Net, Hard and Soft Competitive Learning). Also included are some sample networks built for the individual simulators. There are man pages for the simulators themselves and for many of the C language routines in the libraries. As well, xerion has online help available once the simulators are started. There is a tutorial on using Xerion in the 'doc' directory. Xerion has been run and (pretty well) tested on the following platforms: SGI Personal Iris and SGI 4d running IRIX 4.0.1 Sun 4 running SunOS 4.1.2 Sun 3 running SunOS 4.0.3 It has been compiled and *minimally* tested on the following platforms: DEC 5000 running ULTRIX DEC Alpha running OSF/1 HP 730 running HP-UX 8.07 (Thanks to Joe Devlin at USC). It has been tested with MIT X11R4 and X11R5 (libraries: Xaw, Xmu, Xt, X11). Xerion will probably run on other machines with some modifications, but we haven't tested it on them and make no guarantees. Hope this helps. Cheers -raman -- C.S.Raman UNIX Programming & Administration SPARC & SGI Systems raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu - INTERNET Department of Biochemistry raman@mintaka.chpc.utexas.edu - CHPC UTHSCSA c.raman@launchpad.unc.edu 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. (210) 567-6623 [Tel] San Antonio, TX 78284-7760 (210) 567-6595 [Fax] ****************************************************************************** If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the Mathematics -Francis Bacon ******************************************************************************