Good point.
On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
Based on my experience moving our search engine to work in the
cloud, I
would say that it would be easier on users to not actually build a
specialized AMI, but rather to make some publicly available S3
resources
such as an installation script, jars and tars.
That allows people to install and run mahout not just on a single
AMI, but
also on any AMI they are running. It also makes it easy for anybody
else to
use Mahout fairly trivially.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Tim Bass <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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