that looks interesting, but quite general. I'd be interested to know how he plans to divide the task that will be distributed. I mean SVD in general takes the whole user-item matrix, so it will be challenging to find a good way to divide the task. Papers written on SVD do not discuss this aspect, as far as I know.

On 06/05/2010 18:32, Sean Owen wrote:
We're lucky to have a GSoC student implementing this over the summer:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-371

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Tamas Jambor<jambo...@googlemail.com>  wrote:
I am looking into the problem of distributed SVD for recommender systems.
does anyone know whether someone else tried to tackle this problem before?

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