You would be entirely welcome in Mahout. Graph based algorithms are key for lots of kinds of interesting learning and would be a fabulous thing to have in a comprehensive substrate.
I personally would also be very interested in learning more about about what sorts of things Pregel is doing. It is relatively easy to build simple graph algorithms on top of Map-reduce, but these algorithms typically require a map-reduce iteration to propagate information. Good algorithms for that architecture have exponential propagation so that you don't need a huge number of iterations. It smelled like Pregel was doing something much more interesting. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark Kerzner <markkerz...@gmail.com> wrote: > But Ted, > I am interested specifically in Pregel kind of system, for distributed > graph > operations, and Mahout is for distributed learning. Here what I would > ideally like to do: > > > - Somebody must have info on Pregel - it's out, has been presented, and > the information is public. Anybody has been there and can at least > re-tell? > The subscriptions are expensive, but I could buy one copy of the article, > if > it is available. I will also write directly to the authors; > - Study that and discuss relevant information and architecture; > - Do the first implementation. > > I personally don't like the name Hamburg, but I could live with that. > >
