woo hoo! Thanks andrew and all! On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 9:28 AM Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Happy days! > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 7:26 AM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> > wrote: > > > YAYYY!!! :-) > > > > Congrats to us all :-) > > > > Chris > > > > Am 08.10.20, 16:13 schrieb "Andrew Musselman" <a...@apache.org>: > > > > The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce the release of Mahout > > 14.1. > > Mahout's goal is to create an environment for quickly creating > > machine-learning applications that scale and run on the > > highest-performance > > parallel computation engines available. Mahout comprises an > interactive > > environment and library that support generalized scalable linear > > algebra > > and include many modern machine-learning algorithms. This release > ships > > some major changes from 0.14.0, most in support of refactoring the > > build > > system. > > > > To get started with Apache Mahout 14.1, download the release > artifacts > > and > > signatures from https://downloads.apache.org/mahout/14.1/. > > > > Many thanks to the contributors and committers who were part of this > > release. > > > > > > RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS > > > > The theme of the 14.1 release is a major refactor for simplicity of > > usage > > and maintenance. Pom structure and components have moved, so please > > ask on > > the mailing lists for help if anything is not where you expect it. > > > > > > STATS > > > > A total of 17 separate JIRA issues are addressed in this release [1]. > > > > > > GETTING STARTED > > > > Download the release artifacts and signatures at > > https://mahout.apache.org/general/downloads.html. The examples > > directory > > contains several working examples of the core functionality available > > in > > Mahout. These can be run via scripts in the examples/bin directory. > > Most > > examples do not need a Hadoop cluster in order to run. > > > > > > FUTURE PLANS > > > > 14.2 > > > > As the project moves towards a 14.2 release, we are working on the > > following: > > > > * Further Native Integration for increased speedups > > > > * JCuda backing for In-core Matrices and CUDA solvers > > > > * Enumeration across multiple GPUs per JVM instance on a given > instance > > > > * GPU/OpenMP Acceleration for linear solvers > > > > * Runtime probing and optimization of available hardware for caching > of > > correct/most optimal solver > > > > * Python bindings for DSL > > > > > > > > CONTRIBUTING > > > > If you are interested in contributing, please see our How to > > Contribute [2] > > page or contact us via email at dev@mahout.apache.org. > > > > > > CREDITS > > > > As with every release, we wish to thank all of the users and > > contributors > > to Mahout. Please see the JIRA Release Notes [1] for individual > > credits. > > Big thanks to Chris Dutz for his effort on the refactoring and > cleanup > > in > > this release. > > > > > > KNOWN ISSUES: > > > > * The classify-wikipedia.sh example has an outdated link to the data > > files. > > A workaround is to change the download section of the script to: > `curl > > > > > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles10.xml-p002336425p003046511.bz2 > > -o ${WORK_DIR}/wikixml/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2` > > > > * Currently GPU acceleration for supported operations is limited to a > > single JVM instance > > > > * Occasional segfault with certain GPU models and computations > > > > * On older GPUs some tests fail when building ViennaCL due to card > > limitations > > > > * Currently automatic probing of a system’s hardware happens at each > > supported operation, adding some overhead > > > > * Currently the example in the main README errors out due to a > > packaging > > error; we will be fixing this in the next point release > > > > > > > > [1] > > < > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20issuetype%20in%20(standardIssueTypes()%2C%20subTaskIssueTypes())%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(0.13.0%2C%200.13.1%2C%201.0.0) > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2068?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20issuetype%20in%20(standardIssueTypes()%2C%20subTaskIssueTypes())%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(0.14.1%2C%200.14.0) > > > > [2] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/how-to-contribute > > > > >
