DATE: Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: Council Room (SITE 5-084)
TITLE: Parallel Feature Selection
PRESENTER: Jerffeson Souza
University of Ottawa
ABSTRACT:

In this talk, I will present and discuss a cluster-based parallel version of our hybrid feature selection algorithm FortalFS. The design of this parallel solution was based on the Master-Slave design pattern and requires only 2(n-1) messages (remote method calls) to be exchanged during the whole execution with n processors (clusters). A Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) implementation of this parallel algorithm was developed and evaluated on a local network over four UCI datasets. For all datasets, we were able to achieve near linear speedup.