it's log(P). I just don't know how log(P) is obtained.

On 3/26/08, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Isabel Drost wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >> 2. Sect. 4.1, too.
>  >> "reduce phase can minimize communication by combining data as it's
>  >> passed back; this accounts for the logP factor", Could you help me
>  >> figure out how logP is calculated.
>  >
>  > Anyone else who can help out here?
>
>
> Isn't this just log(P) where P is the number of cores?  The version of
>  the paper I have says log(P) not logP, so maybe there is a typo?
>
>   From earlier in 4.1:
>  "We assume that the dimension of the inputs is n (i.e., x
>  ∈R
>  n
>  ), that we have m
>  training examples, and that there are P cores"
>
>
>
>  -Grant
>
>
>

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