We are trying to prototype mahout cf for our application. Our app is gwt currently running on google app engine.
Ted, are you saying that I need to move my application to EC2? On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed a posting on Nabble that I didn't ever see on our mailing > list. Here is an answer. > > Damiano wrote: > > > Hi all, > I want to use Mahout in a distributed environment but I don't have CPUs to > put together and make a Hadoop cluster, so I would like to use Google App > Engine. > Is it possible to run Mahout on Google App Engine and take advantage of the > distributed environment? > > Thanks in advance, > Damiano Spina. > > > I don't think that this will work very well at all for much of Mahout. You > can probably embed small classifier models in an AppEngine program, but the > AppEngine restricts file storage very severely so it is very unlikely that > you could run any training algorithms or recommendation engines. For sure, > the experience would not be one suitable for a beginner. > > What I would recommend is that you put down a dollar or two and buy some > time from Amazon on EC2. You can do some very large problems that way for > a > cost that is remarkably close to zero. >
