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The disturbed nature of the epiphany strikes me as a perfect platform to run an artificial neural network.
does anyone have any experience with the library?
I downloaded the source, but havnt had time to look at it yet.

I've not used but FANN and would be interested in NN's on parallela as well. A quick google yields http://viennacl.sourceforge.net/ which may also be useful.

This would be the one of the killer-app for this board. I can't wait (have been patiently waiting, actually) for my board, I'm also designing my own 64-core embedded board, albeit it is using 9 x P8X32A chips

Anyway, are there any work to the library on this? I presume apps like Octave would work on this board?

Hi I've got some limited experience using FANN and neural nets in general.

I can definitely say this board would be a great fit. The epiphany cores, from what I can understand at least, are pretty good at talking to each other. Compared with traditional processors this is very desirable for artificial neurons. Additionally the FPGA can be run in cooperation if you can work out the clocking details.

Finally, with regard to neural nets I'm very pleased with the inclusion of the analog unit, which can provide data context which is especially 'native' to neuron structures.

Im glad to hear others thinking the same thing that I am... this epiphany chip *could* be a great NN platform. Which is exactly what I plan on using my Parallella boards for. My initial plans include :

* getting ngspice running (if I can) to speed up Analog NN simulations
* use something like FANN for connectivity/learning algorithms
* writing models for vary degree of bio-realistic neural net emulation

I probably wont receive my hardware until October 2013 at best, so that gives me plenty of time to figure out exactly what code I want to run first.

I wrote a basic 3 layer back-propagation neural network simulator a few years back. I actually got it working after a couple of years.

My first project will be to rewrite it for Parallella. I've done some of the high level design work and yes, the Parallella architecture will work well. The learning curve for me will be getting the OpenCL working. Don't hold your breath - I've got kids now.