Large Scale Machine Learning and Other Animals

Here is what I got from Ken Montanez, from Amazon, via Mahout mailing list: Amazon's Information Security Organization partnered with ...

I am very pleased to announce, that GraphLab large scale machine learning project is now supported by Amazon Elastic cloud (EC2), who alloc...

There is no doubt that Amazon EC2 is one of the most successful and useful cloud services. However, a few days ago I had the nerve breaking...

A few days ago we have released a detailed technical report about the performance of distributed GraphLab on Amazon EC2 with up to 64 nodes ...

In this post I will share some of the insights I got when tuning Hadoop/Mahout on Amazon EC regular and high performance nodes. I was using ...

This post explains how to install Mahout ML framework on top of Amazon EC2 (CentOS/RedHat based machine). The notes are based on older Maho...

GraphLab is an open source large scale parallel machine learning framework. This post explains how to install GraphLab on Amazon EC2 and ...

I am working in the last couple of weeks on comparing the performance of GraphLab vs. Mahout on Alternaring least squares using Netflix data...

BLAS/Lapack are efficient matrix math libraries. The following instructions explains how to install them for Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu maverick ver...

Pegasus is a peta scale graph mining library. This post explains how to install it on Amazon EC2. 1) Start with the Amazon EC2 image you...

1) Edit the file conf/hdfs-conf.xml Set the number of replicas as the number of nodes you plan to use. In this example, 4. hadoop.tm...

Connecting to management web interface of an Hadoop node 1) Login into AWS management consolute setup Select the default security group,...

Following part 1 of this posting which explained how to install Mahout and Hadoop on Amazon EC2. We start by testing logistic regression ...

This post explains how to install Mahout ML framework on top of Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu based machine). The notes are based on older Mahout note...