Yes all cores are used and the heap is allowed to grow as large as possible, and is utilized for speed.
On 4/3/09, Markus Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On 03.04.2009, at 16:59, Sean Owen wrote: > >> As a benchmark I ran the 10 million rating GroupLens data set, on a >> high CPU >> extra large instance. It generated recommendations for all 71K users >> in >> about 10 hours, costing a bit more than $8. That is a kind of worst >> case; >> you can recommend for only a subset of users or trade some accuracy >> for >> speed. > > Thanks for that benachmark data! Does taste make use of all of the > cores and memory in the extra big instance? > > Cheers, > > Markus >
