Parallelizing the cascade-correlation algorithm using Time Warp

Abstract This paper discusses the method in which the cascade-correlation algorithm was parallelzznd in such a way that it could be run using the Time Warp Operating System (TWOS). TWOS is a special-purpose operating system designed to run parallel discrete event simulations with maximum efficiency on parallel or distributed computers. The parallelization process is described, and a formula is derived for the maximum possible speedup using this technique. For the benchmark used, a speedup of 8 was obtained while running on 10 nodes of a BBN GP1000 parallel computer, indicating that this approach is a useful way of parallelizing cascade-correlation.