Visualization: An Aid to Design and Understand Neural Networks in a Parallel Environment

In this paper, we describe two visualization tools developed on the DAP-510, a SIMD machine having 1024 processors. The two tools are (i) the interactive visualization tool, and (ii) the display tool. The interactive visualization tool allows the user to steer the course of computation by interactively modifying its parameters based on the visual feedback. The display tool transforms the numeric data into a visual form. It also gives the user capability to manipulate the visual representation. In the implementation of these tools we exploit the parallel features of DAP-510. These tools are utilized for designing and understanding the neural networks. However, it is worth mentioning that these tools are general in nature and can easily interact with other parallel computa, tion processes.