just FYI: in the process of making SystemML work smoothly w/ object stores, we fixed our handling of file URI schemes. So now, you can read/write from/to different file systems, independent of the configured default fs implementations. For example you can now do something like this
A = read("file:///<file on local disk>"); B = read("./<file on default fs>"); C = read("swift://<container>/<file in object store>"); which also allows you to read local files even if HDFS is the default fs implementation. The same applies to our scratch_space configuration, which however, requires some additional work. Regards, Matthias