Dmitriy,
  That sounds great. I eagerly await the patch.
Thanks
Esh
On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote:

> Ok, i got u0 working.
> 
> The problem is of course that something called BBt job is to be coerced to
> have 1 reducer (it's fine, every mapper won't yeld more than
> upper-triangular matrix of k+p x k+p geometry, so even if you end up having
> thousands of them, reducer would sum them up just fine.
> 
> it worked before apparently because configuration hold 1 reducer by default
> if not set explicitly, i am not quite sure if that's something in hadoop mr
> client or mahout change that now precludes it from working.
> 
> anyway, i got a patch (really a one-liner) and an example equivalent to
> yours worked fine for me with 3 reducers.
> 
> Also, in the tests, it also requests 3 reducers, but the reason it works in
> tests and not in distributed mapred is because local mapred doesn't support
> multiple reducers. I investigated this issue before and apparently there
> were a couple of patches floating around but for some reason those changes
> did not take hold in cdh3u0.
> 
> I will publish patch in a jira shortly and will commit it Sunday-ish.
> 
> Thanks.
> -d
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Eshwaran Vijaya Kumar <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> OK. So to add more info to this, I tried setting the number of reducers to
>> 1 and now I don't get that particular error. The singular values and left
>> and right singular vectors appear to be correct though (verified using
>> Matlab).
>> 
>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Eshwaran Vijaya Kumar wrote:
>> 
>>> All,
>>> I am trying to test Stochastic SVD and am facing some errors where it
>> would be great if  someone could clarifying what is going on. I am trying to
>> feed the solver a DistributedRowMatrix with the exact same parameters that
>> the test in  LocalSSVDSolverSparseSequentialTest uses, i.e, Generate a 1000
>> X 100 DRM with SequentialSparseVectors and then ask for blockHeight 251, p
>> (oversampling) = 60, k (rank) = 40. I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Unexpected overrun in
>> upper triangular matrix files
>>>       at
>> org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.stochasticsvd.SSVDSolver.loadUpperTriangularMatrix(SSVDSolver.java:471)
>>>       at
>> org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.stochasticsvd.SSVDSolver.run(SSVDSolver.java:268)
>>>       at com.mozilla.SSVDCli.run(SSVDCli.java:89)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
>>>       at com.mozilla.SSVDCli.main(SSVDCli.java:129)
>>>       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>>       at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>>>       at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:186)
>>> 
>>> Also, I am using CDH3 with Mahout recompiled to work with CDH3 jars.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Esh
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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