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Author: buildbot
Date: Mon Nov 18 11:48:18 2013
New Revision: 887085

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-    <p>The Official Mahout FAQ</p>
+    <h1 id="the-official-mahout-faq">The Official Mahout FAQ</h1>
 <p><em>General</em></p>
 <ol>
 <li><a href="#whatis.html">What is Apache Mahout?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#mean.html">What does the name mean?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#historical.html">Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project? </a></li>
-<li><a href="#logo.html">Where can I download Mahout logo? </a></li>
+<li><a href="#logo.html">Where can I download the Mahout logo? </a></li>
 <li><a href="#presentations.html">Where can I download Mahout slide presentations? </a></li>
 </ol>
 <p><em>Algorithms</em>
 1. <a href="#algos.html">What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?</a>
-1. <a href="#todo.html">What algorithms are missing from Mahout?</a></p>
+1. <a href="#todo.html">What algorithms are missing from Mahout?</a>
+1. <a href="#hadoop.html">Do I need Hadoop to run Mahout?</a></p>
 <p><a name="FAQ-*Answers*"></a></p>
 <h1 id="answers"><em>Answers</em></h1>
 <p><a name="FAQ-General"></a></p>
@@ -415,7 +416,7 @@ Hadoop's development.</p>
 <p>See <a href="http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com">http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com</a>
  for old wiki and mailing list archives (all read-only)</p>
 <p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:logo}WherecanIdownloadMahoutlogo?"></a></p>
-<h3 id="anchorlogowhere-can-i-download-mahout-logo">{anchor:logo}Where can I download Mahout logo?</h3>
+<h3 id="anchorlogowhere-can-i-download-the-mahout-logo">{anchor:logo}Where can I download the Mahout logo?</h3>
 <p>See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-335">MAHOUT-335</a></p>
 <p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:presentations}WherecanIdownloadMahoutslidepresentations?"></a></p>
 <h3 id="anchorpresentations-where-can-i-download-mahout-slide-presentations">{anchor:presentations} Where can I download Mahout slide presentations?</h3>
@@ -437,6 +438,13 @@ which are already implemented in Mahout.
 Mahout, including some from the paper <a href="http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf">http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf</a>
 . If you have an algorithm or an improvement to an algorithm that you would
 like to implement, by all means submit a patch.</p>
+<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:hadoop}DoIneedHadooptorunMahout?"></a></p>
+<h3 id="anchorhadoop-do-i-need-hadoop-to-use-mahout">{anchor:hadoop} Do I need Hadoop to use Mahout?</h3>
+<p>Apart from the possibility of running Hadoop jobs in a single node installation there are
+a couple of modules that require no Hadoop dependencies whatsoever (except maybe for
+vector and matrix serialisation). For recommendation those packages don't have Hadoop as
+part of their namespace. For classification checkout the sgd package. For clustering checkout
+the new kmeans++ stuff.</p>
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