[jira] [Resolved] (MAHOUT-1431) Comparison of Mahout 0.8 vs mahout 0.9 in EMR

["Sebastian Schelter (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1431?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sebastian Schelter resolved MAHOUT-1431.
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    Resolution: Cannot Reproduce

Closing this as we didn't get another answer for 6 weeks.

> Comparison of Mahout 0.8 vs mahout 0.9 in EMR
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>                 Key: MAHOUT-1431
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1431
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Question
>          Components: Clustering
>    Affects Versions: 0.8, 0.9
>            Reporter: yannis ats
>              Labels: performance
>
> Hi all,
> i tested mahout 0.8 and 0.9 in mahout emr with a large dataset as input and 
> i performed kmeans experiments with both versions in amazon EMR.
> What i found is that mahout 0.8 is faster than mahout 0.9
> in particular i observed that mahout 0.8 is performing less iterations and every iteration of kmeans is faster than mahout 0.9.Every iteration in mahout 0.8 is twice as fast as that of 0.9
> the hadoop version was 1.0.x and the input of the data was roughly 2 million datapoints with dimensionality of 1800.
> The input parameters in both experiments were exactly the same,modulo the initialization which was random in both cases and i can understand that this may affect the convergence(the amount of iterations),but i am baffled by the fact that every iteration takes almost twice the time in 0.9 vs 0.8
> Is this normal?is this  expected?
> thank you in advance for your time.



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