Massively parallel computer networks

We have seen in the previous section that a massively parallel computer consists of a number of nodes connected via a communication network, and that the nodes comprise small groups of processors that share memory and other resources, although a node may also contain just a single processor. Each individual node in a parallel computer is typically essentially the same as a personal computer with the addition of specialized hardware (a host channel adaptor (HCA) or a network interface card (NIC)) to connect the computer to the network. Parallelizing an application is not strictly a matter of providing for... 

The exceptional computational abilities of the human brain have motivated the concept of an NN. The brain can perform certain types of computation, such as perception, pattern recognition, and motor control, much faster than existing digital computers (Haykin, 2009). The operation of the human brain is complex and nonlinear and involves massive parallel computation. Its computations are performed using structural constituents called neurons and the synaptic interconnections between them (that is, a neural network), The development of artificial neural networks is an admittedly approximate attempt to mimic this biological neural network, in order to achieve some of its computational advantages. 

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