It also depends on what you are doing. Several parts of Mahout have non Hadoop versions.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:53 AM, parnab kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
