Don’t Laugh: Yahoo’s Open Source AI Has a Secret Weapon

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Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Don’t Laugh: Yahoo’s Open Source AI Has a Secret Weapon

CaffeOnSpark, as the name suggests, combines two existing technologies: the popular deep learning framework Caffe and the up-and-coming data-crunching system Spark that can run on top of the even more popular big data platform Hadoop. What Yahoo did was simply create a way to run Caffee atop Spark clusters. It can be run either on Spark alone or atop Hadoop. Besides making it easy for AI developers to use familiar tools and avoid moving data around, Feng says CaffeOnSpark also makes it relatively easy to distribute deep learning processes across multiple servers, something that the open source version of Google’s TensorFlow can’t yet do.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/dont-laugh-yahoos-open-source-ai-secret-weapon/

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