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Neural Network Exemplar Parallelization with Go

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2023-09-18 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

This paper presents a case for exemplar parallelism of neural networks using Go as parallelization framework. Further it is shown that also limited multi-core hardware systems are feasible for these parallelization tasks, as notebooks and single board computer systems. The main question was how much speedup can be generated when using concurrent Go goroutines specifically. A simple concurrent feedforward network for MNIST digit recognition with the programming language Go was created to find the answer. The first findings when using a notebook (Lenovo Yoga 2) showed a speedup of 252% when utilizing 4 goroutines. Testing a single board computer (Banana Pi M3) delivered more convincing results: 320% with 4 goroutines, and 432% with 8 goroutines.

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@article{arxiv.2309.08444,
  title  = {Neural Network Exemplar Parallelization with Go},
  author = {Georg Wiesinger and Erich Schikuta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08444},
  year   = {2023}
}

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