RPC Setup Panel

With the help of this panel the current settings of the marked simulator kernel are displayed and modified.

  
Figure: The RPC Setup Panel

• and switch between the connection types UDP and TCP. If the connection type is changed, the current connection is terminated and a new connection is established. UDP and TCP are the two possible protocols that are build directly upon the internet protocol (IP). UDP (unreliable datagram protocol) is a little bit faster than TCP. Since TCP is more reliable we recomend it for usage with xguirpc.

• and set the mode of the kernel. The function of the coop-master mode has not been implemented in this release of the SNNS.

• Standard timeout The waiting interval of the graphical user-interface, which is used to determine when an rpc error should be displayed.

• Long duration timeout The long duration timeout field is responsible for the waiting time in the learning process. It specifies the time xguirpc will wait for a kernlrpc program to finish a training cycle. If there is no response within that period of time xguirpc will assume an errror in the program execution. This value should be rather large for big nets or pattern sets, otherwise an error will be displayed even if there is actually none.

• Timeout for autoexit is responsible to specify how long a simulator kernel will wait without receiving any messages before it automatically stops. This value is entered in minutes.

• switch to local (ALL) Specifies the threshold for asynchronous execution mode. If there are fewer training cycles specified in the control panel, xguirpc will wait for the remote host to finish learning (synchronous mode). If there are more training cycles specified, xguirpc will start training on the remote host and then immediately switch back to `direct local' to allow the user further input as long as kernlrpc is executing training on the remote host ( asynchronous mode). This value is relevant only for the training of all patterns.

• switch to local (SINGLE) Same as switch to local (ALL) but with relevance only to learning a single pattern.

• All entered values are set only after this button is pressed.

• will use the default values.

• closes the window.