On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Anand Avati <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > I'm not sure I completely understand mapBlock. Can you please give a > concrete example (with a simple 2x3 matrix) of how mapblock works? I have a > reasonable understanding of how Spark partitions and distributes data of > its RDD. Based on that, and knowing how H2O distributes data, I feel it is > a matter of providing thing logic and wrapper to make something built on > Spark to be built on H2O. That being said, I want to make sure I do not > misunderstand or make wrong assumptions about mapBlock, hence request for a > concrete example. > > Thanks! > > Anand, concrete examples are given and explained in scala/spark bindings documentation on Mahout website. Also, there's a talk and slides from last Mahout meetup that also discuss Mahout DRM structure and access to it in case of sparkbindings. Come back if you still have questions after that (along with suggestions what can be improved in the docs to make things easier).
