NAME

       dimbl - Distributed Timbl

SYNOPSYS

       dimbl [timbl options] [-S <num of threads>]

DESCRIPTION

       dimbl  extends  timbl  with  the possibility to run the classification task on multiple threads.  This is
       done by splitting up the Instancebase in parts that are handled  in  parallel.  Every  test  instance  is
       tested  against  each partial Instancebase.  The results are merged and then the k Nearest Neighbours are
       calculated.

NOTES

       dimbl only works for the IB1 variants of timbl.

       Not all timbl options are fully supported.

       Documentation is lacking.

OPTIONS

       -S <threads>
              run the server on 'threads' parallel threads.

       all timbl options are documenented in timbl(1)

       dimbl handles most of them in the same way as timbl except for

       -i filename

       and

       -I filename

       -I will create 'threads' Instancebase files and store their names in 'filename' together with the name of
       the weighting file.

       -i  will use such a file to read back in 'threads' Instancebases for a classifying task. The -S option is
       ignored in that case.  dimbl will use the number of files found in 'filename'.

BUGS

       possibly

AUTHORS

       Ko van der Sloot Timbl@uvt.nl

       Antal van den Bosch Timbl@uvt.nl

SEE ALSO

       timbl(1)

                                                2010 december 09                                        dimbl(1)