somoclu: An Efficient Parallel Library for Self-Organizing Maps

somoclu is a massively parallel tool for training self-organizing maps on large data sets written in C++. It builds on OpenMP for multicore execution, and on MPI for distributing the workload across the nodes in a cluster. It is also able to boost training by using CUDA if graphics processing units...

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Main Authors: Peter Wittek, Shi Chao Gao, Ik Soo Lim, Li Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2017-06-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3158