Hi Israel. I think its a wonderful idea to have ports of mahout, it tells us that we have a great platform with people really want to use. The only concern is Hadoop is still in Java and they are not going with C++. They work around it by using native libraries to execute cpu intensive tasks like sorting and compressing. The reason being that Java is much easier to manage in such a distributed system(i guess lot of people may differ in opinion).
Regardless, I guess wrappers could be made to ease execution of mahout algorithms from any language. If thats a solution you like then folks here can concentrate on improving just one code base. Robin On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > First of all I would like to start by thanking all the commiters and > contributors for all their hard work so far on this project. > > Most importantly, I want to thank the Apache Mahout community for bringing > this very promising project to where it is now. > > It's pretty amazing to see what the project has accomplished in a short > span > of 2 years. > > I strongly believe that Apache Mahout is really going to change things > around for the data mining and machine learning community the same way > Apache Lucene and Apache Solr is taking over this sector as we speak. > > Currently Apache Mahout is only available in Java and there are a lot of > tools in Mahout that is very useful and a lot of people (students, > instructors, researchers and computer scientists are using it daily). > > I think it would be nice if all of these tools in Mahout were also > available > in C++ so that users that already have systems written in C++ can plug in > an > integrate Mahout a lot easier with their existing or planned C++ systems. > > If we have the C++ port up and running possibly more members of the data > mining and machine learning community could get involved and ideas could be > shuffled in both directions (Java and C++ port) > > I will volunteer to spearhead this porting effort to get things started. > > I am sending this message to all members of the Apache Mahout community on > what you think can should be done to get this porting effort up and > running. > > Thanks in advance for you constructive and anticipated responses. > > Sincerely, > Israel Ekpo > > -- > "Good Enough" is not good enough. > To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. > Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once. > http://www.israelekpo.com/ >
