On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Lenley Woodard <[email protected]>wrote:

> We are exploring a Java bridge from Riak to Mahout.
> I have a few questions at this point:
> 1.) How is parallelization done in Riak?
>
MapReduce:
https://wiki.basho.com/MapReduce.html#An-Introduction-to-MapReduce


> 2.) What internal mechanisms are in Riak to do parallelizations of
> large matrices?
>
Riak's map reduce functionality allows parallel processing of map and reduce
functions over a given set of data but nothing specific to large matrices.


> 3.) How does Riak handle multiple cores in complex and data I/O
> intensive algorithms?
>
The Erlang VM manages the spread of work over multiple cores on any single
node. Riak distributes work across a cluster via map reduce.


>
> I'm sure it's in the documentation somewhere -- can you point out the
> locations?
>
> --
> J. Lenley Woodard
> Kotoko Group, LLC
> Kotoko.com
>
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