TY - JOUR T1 - Parallel Self-Organizing Map using MapReduce in GPUs Environment AU - Abd Rashid, Faeez AU - Elaiza Abd Khalid, Noor AU - Firdaus Mustapha, Muhammad AU - Manaf, Mazani JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 13 IS - 2 SP - 314 EP - 320 PY - 2018 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2018.314.320 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2018.314.320 KW - Self-organizing map KW -enhanced mapreduce KW -incremental reduction KW -graphical processing units KW -enhancement KW -method AB - One of the drawbacks of MapReduce characteristic is overlap communication. It causes implementation inefficiency in the GPUs environment. However, this can be overcome using incremental reduction method. This method will enhance the communication process on GPUs environment as an alternative to execution using CPU. This enhancement is based on Python with support of CUDA technologies which can execute this whole process in GPUs environment. In order to achieve the good performance, this study is proposing to design the MapReduce with incremental reduction and then to construct it and finally to test the enhancement method to the self-organizing map with handwriting dataset. ER -