sorry but I don't agree with you. We can benefit of GPU to speed up the
hadoop MapReduce computation .look at this paper. I just found it :

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5289201&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5289201



On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hadoop and CUDA are quite at odds -- Hadoop is all about splitting up
> a problem across quite remote machines while CUDA/GPU approaches rely
> on putting all computation together not only on one machine but within
> one graphics card.
>
> It doesn't make sense to combine them. Either you want to distribute a
> lot or you don't.
>
> As has been said above, it is all quite possible to implement if you want
> to.
> Nothing like this exists in Mahout. There is not even native code in
> this project.
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, mohsen jadidi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > yes it makes sense .
> > but I am more interested to get faster computation by combining the
> Mahout
> > and GPU capabilities. I just wanted to know if   people involve in Mahout
> > have thought about it or is it at all possible or not.for example speed
> up
> > the Map and Reduce phases by parallelise computations on nodes. Of
> course I
> > am not aware of communication cost.
>



-- 
Mohsen Jadidi

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