Thanks everyone for your responses so far. The Apache Hadoop dependency was something I thought about initially but I still went ahead to ask the question anyways.
At this time, it would be a better use of resources and time to come up with a wrapper or HTTP server/client set up of some sort. My reasoning behind this is because of the Hadoop dependency and the volatile nature of the API as pointed out by Sean and Robin Thanks again for all your responses. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Atul Kulkarni <atulskulka...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey guys, > > My 1 cent... > > I would be really happy to contribute to this task of enabling use of > Mahout > via C++ (Wrapper / Port either way). I have some experience with C++ and > have been wanting to use mahout via C++ (as that is my comfort zone > compared > to Java.). > > I think port will give the code directly in the hands of the C++ > developers, > which sounds really exciting to me as a C++ developer. But I also > understand > the concern of maintaining two different code bases for the same task, and > hence also like the idea of writing wrappers. So I am divided on the two > options, either works for me. > > Regards, > Atul. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Robin Anil <robin.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Atul Kulkarni > www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 <http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053> > -- "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/
