:) On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:59 PM Peng Zhang <pzhang.x...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I’m very happy to hear this news~ > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 10:25 Andrew Musselman <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce the release of Mahout > 0.14.0. > > Mahout's goal is to create an environment for quickly creating > > machine-learning applications that scale and run on the > highest-performance > > parallel computation engines available. Mahout comprises an interactive > > environment and library that support generalized scalable linear algebra > > and include many modern machine-learning algorithms. This release ships > > some major changes from 0.13.0, most in support of simplicity and > tidiness. > > > > To get started with Apache Mahout 0.14.0, download the release artifacts > > and signatures from http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.14.0. > > > > Many thanks to the contributors and committers who were part of this > > release. > > > > > > RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS > > > > The theme of the 0.14.0 release is a major refactor for simplicity of > usage > > and maintenance. Non-core items have been moved to the new “community” > > module, and a new “experimental” area has been created for cutting-edge > > work that may require user tuning for specific hardware configurations. > > > > > > STATS > > > > A total of 15 separate JIRA issues are addressed in this release [1]. > > > > > > GETTING STARTED > > > > Download the release artifacts and signatures at > > https://mahout.apache.org/general/downloads.html. The examples directory > > contains several working examples of the core functionality available in > > Mahout. These can be run via scripts in the examples/bin directory. Most > > examples do not need a Hadoop cluster in order to run. > > > > > > FUTURE PLANS > > > > 0.14.1 > > > > As the project moves towards a 0.14.1 release, we are working on the > > following: > > > > * Further Native Integration for increased speedups > > > > * JCuda backing for In-core Matrices and CUDA solvers > > > > * Enumeration across multiple GPUs per JVM instance on a given instance > > > > * GPU/OpenMP Acceleration for linear solvers > > > > * Further integration with other libraries such as MLLib and SparkML > > > > * Incorporate more statistical operations > > > > * Runtime probing and optimization of available hardware for caching of > > correct/most optimal solver > > > > > > CONTRIBUTING > > > > If you are interested in contributing, please see our How to Contribute > [2] > > page or contact us via email at d...@mahout.apache.org. > > > > > > CREDITS > > > > As with every release, we wish to thank all of the users and contributors > > to Mahout. Please see the JIRA Release Notes [1] for individual credits. > > Big thanks to Trevor Grant for a large effort on the refactoring and > > cleanup in this release. > > > > > > KNOWN ISSUES: > > > > * The classify-wikipedia.sh example has an outdated link to the data > files. > > A workaround is to change the download section of the script to: `curl > > > > > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles10.xml-p002336425p003046511.bz2 > > -o > > < > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles10.xml-p002336425p003046511.bz2-o > > > > ${WORK_DIR}/wikixml/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2` > > > > * Currently GPU acceleration for supported operations is limited to a > > single JVM instance > > > > * Occasional segfault with certain GPU models and computations > > > > * On older GPUs some tests fail when building ViennaCL due to card > > limitations > > > > * Currently automatic probing of a system’s hardware happens at each > > supported operation, adding some overhead > > > > * Currently the example in the main README errors out due to a packaging > > error; we will be fixing this in the next point release > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20issuetype%20in%20(standardIssueTypes()%2C%20subTaskIssueTypes())%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(0.14.0) > > < > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20issuetype%20in%20(standardIssueTypes()%2C%20subTaskIssueTypes())%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(0.13.0%2C%200.13.1%2C%201.0.0) > > > > > > > [2] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/how-to-contribute > > >
