Petuum, a distributed machine learning framework

A comparison with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediction.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediction.io</a> would be interesting.

Project lead Eric Xing has a nice talk about Petuum on Big Data Technology Conference 2014 in China: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;petuum.github.io&#x2F;papers&#x2F;eric_bdtc2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;petuum.github.io&#x2F;papers&#x2F;eric_bdtc2014.pdf</a>

Browsing through the code, this looks a bit rough around the edges and untested. I&#x27;d wonder how it compares to similar packages for Spark, Hadoop or Flink. Lack of numbers and users make me wonder if it&#x27;s anything more than someone&#x27;s PhD project at CMU.

I wonder how it compares to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mahout.apache.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mahout.apache.org&#x2F;</a>

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paracel.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paracel.io&#x2F;</a><p>this is a similar project from douban inc.