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I would be really happy to contribute to this task of enabling use of Mahout via C++ (Wrapper / Port either way). I have some experience with C++ and have been wanting to use mahout via C++ (as that is my comfort zone compared to Java.). I think port will give the code directly in the hands of the C++ developers, which sounds really exciting to me as a C++ developer. But I also understand the concern of maintaining two different code bases for the same task, and hence also like the idea of writing wrappers. So I am divided on the two options, either works for me. Regards, Atul. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Robin Anil <robin.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Israel. I think its a wonderful idea to have ports of mahout, it tells > us > that we have a great platform with people really want to use. The only > concern is Hadoop is still in Java and they are not going with C++. They > work around it by using native libraries to execute cpu intensive tasks > like > sorting and compressing. The reason being that Java is much easier to > manage > in such a distributed system(i guess lot of people may differ in opinion). > > Regardless, I guess wrappers could be made to ease execution of mahout > algorithms from any language. If thats a solution you like then folks here > can concentrate on improving just one code base. > > Robin > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > First of all I would like to start by thanking all the commiters and > > contributors for all their hard work so far on this project. > > > > Most importantly, I want to thank the Apache Mahout community for > bringing > > this very promising project to where it is now. > > > > It's pretty amazing to see what the project has accomplished in a short > > span > > of 2 years. > > > > I strongly believe that Apache Mahout is really going to change things > > around for the data mining and machine learning community the same way > > Apache Lucene and Apache Solr is taking over this sector as we speak. > > > > Currently Apache Mahout is only available in Java and there are a lot of > > tools in Mahout that is very useful and a lot of people (students, > > instructors, researchers and computer scientists are using it daily). > > > > I think it would be nice if all of these tools in Mahout were also > > available > > in C++ so that users that already have systems written in C++ can plug in > > an > > integrate Mahout a lot easier with their existing or planned C++ systems. > > > > If we have the C++ port up and running possibly more members of the data > > mining and machine learning community could get involved and ideas could > be > > shuffled in both directions (Java and C++ port) > > > > I will volunteer to spearhead this porting effort to get things started. > > > > I am sending this message to all members of the Apache Mahout community > on > > what you think can should be done to get this porting effort up and > > running. > > > > Thanks in advance for you constructive and anticipated responses. > > > > Sincerely, > > Israel Ekpo > > > > -- > > "Good Enough" is not good enough. > > To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. > > Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once. > > http://www.israelekpo.com/ > > > -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
