So ...
who's gonna do the social network announces ... haven't hears anything on
Twitter or LinkedIn yet.
Chris
Am 08.10.20, 17:02 schrieb "Trevor Grant" <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com>:
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
> >
> >
>
