Wow. That is a great idea, Mahout on a Ubuntu Hardy AMI.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds cool. On a related note, it has always been my intent to put up > Mahout as an AMI, similar to what Hadoop does, to make it easy for people to > get started w/ Mahout. > > > On Feb 1, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > >> I had a thought. After looking at Amazon's most excellent EC2 system >> again I realized how simple it would be to offer batch recommendations >> via EC2. You upload your data to S3, run a machine image I provide >> parameterized with the file location, it crunches, copies the results >> back, shuts down. It's attractive since they offer 8-way 15GB machines >> and the algorithms can easily exploit this to the limit, making it >> really efficient too. >> >> I was thinking of developing an AMI for this separately and offering >> it as a for-pay commercial service -- Amazon makes that pretty easy. >> (It would hardly be a big money maker -- a couple dollars per hour is >> probably the highest reasonable price to charge -- but would sorta pay >> for its own development.) >> >> I think it will be interesting to try as a proof of concept. It's a >> solution that still doesn't scale to huge data sets, but I think a >> 15GB machine would still work for large-ish data sets (~100M ratings) >> and its exactly those small- to medium-sized applications for which it >> might make sense to outsource this. >> >> Sean > > >
