This is quite small and certainly doesn't require Hadoop. That's the good news. Any reasonable server will do well for you. You won't be memory bound. More cores will let you serve more QPS.
Your pain points will be elsewhere like tuning for best quality and real time updates. See my separate email for a possible different solution. Sean On Jan 29, 2013 5:21 PM, "Henning Kuich" <hku...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer Ted. > > I want to build a User-based recommender for an e-commerce start-up. The 1M > ratings dataset from grouplens is about what we are expecting in the nearer > future. the data will be preferences either from 1-5 or 1-3... > > I hope this makes my question a bit more complete.. sorry about that! > > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Depends on what you want to do with Mahout. > > > > What is that? > > > > How much data? > > > > What kind of data? > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Henning Kuich <hku...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > is there a preferred computer architecture for Mahout? for example, do > > > multicore processors help? is there anything else in terms of server > > > hardware that one should know about, or anything that might be > > particularly > > > favorable to implement Mahout? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Henning > > > > > > -- > > > > > > P. Henning J. L. Kuich > > > email: hku...@gmail.com > > > twitter: @hkuich <http://twitter.com/hkuich> > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any > > > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > > > contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > > > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not > > > the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > > > destroy all copies of the original message. > > > > > > > > > -- > > P. Henning J. L. Kuich > email: hku...@gmail.com > twitter: @hkuich <http://twitter.com/hkuich> > facebook: henning.kuich > G+: hkuich > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > destroy all copies of the original message. >
