This is the Python implementation of MDS based strategy in CodeNet with soft error simulation, writen by Ziqian Bai (Jeremy).

• A usable Amazon EC2 account
• Python 2.7 with StarCluster toolkit

• Follow the tutorial to setup the cluster. For the experiments in the paper, 40 m3.medium instances are used.
• ssh the master node

starcluster sshmaster <your cluster name>

• Clone the repo to /home/<username>

cd ../home/<username>
git clone https://github.com/zqbai-jeremy/CodeNet.git
cd CodeNet

mpiexec -n <num of processors> python codedDNN_CNN.py <strategy type> <network type> <checkpoint freq> <mode> <train set size> <test set size> <round>

• num of processors: total number of processors used [40 in the paper]
• strategy type: what strategy to use; choose from mds/replica/uncoded
• network type: what network to use; currently only "fc"(fully connected) is available
• checkpoint freq: the number of iterations to do check-pointing
• mode: which mode to use; choose from -time/-accuracy; -time: record the time of every iteration and only test accuracy at the end; -accuracy: test the accuracy at every round
• train set size: number of data instances used for training [2000 in the paper]
• test set size: number of data instances used for testing [500 in the paper]
• round: split the training process to how many rounds (train "train set size"/"round" data instances and test the accuracy at each round); only for -accuracy mode [10 in the paper]