It is always possible to run mahout without a cluster on a single machine but donot expect too much performance gain on it if you are using a huge data set.Such a set up is primarily meant for development and testing purpose on small datasets. If you have a machine with many cores , you can configure hadoop in pseudo cluster mode and then point mahout to hadoop directory . Set the number of map and reduce slots in the hadoop conf file to properly utilize the cores of your processor.
Thanks, Parnab On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Fernando Santos < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm working with some classification tasks that are taking long time do be > processed. So looking for a solution I found Mahout. > > Does anyone know if using Mahout without any cluster, just in my computer, > it gives better performance than not using it? I mean, is it possible to > treat the different cores of my computer's processor as they were a cluster > of other machines? > > Thanks! > > -- > Fernando Santos > +55 61 8129 8505 >
