KnittingBoar

Parallel Iterative Algorithm (SGD) on Hadoop's YARN framework

• Built on top of BSP-style computation framework "Iterative Reduce" (Hadoop / YARN)
• Uses Mahout's implementation of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as basis for worker process

Slides From Hadoop World 2012:

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/resources/library/hadoopworld/strata-hadoop-world-2012-knitting-boar_slide_deck.html

Knitting Boar is an experimental machine learning application which parallelizes Mahout's Stochastic Gradient Descent on top of a new YARN based framework for Hadoop called Iterative Reduce

• Intro to Knitting Boar
• [Quick Start] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Quick-Start)
• [Frequently Asked Questions] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/FAQ)
• [Command Line Usage] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Command-Line-Usage)
• [Knitting Boar Internals] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Knitting-Boar-Internals)
• [Iterative Reduce] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Iterative-Reduce)
• [Outstanding Issues] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Outstanding-Issues)
• [Parallel SGD Resources] (https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Parallel-SGD-Resources)