This post details how to install and setup Apache Mahout on top of IBM Open Platform 4.1 (IOP 4.1). Getting Started Before starting the Mahout install and setup, IOP 4.1 should be installed and setup on your cluster ( IOP 4.1 Installation ). Purpose. This document describes how to set up and configure a single-node Hadoop installation so that you can quickly perform simple operations using Hadoop MapReduce and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Prerequisites for Building MAHOUT Java JDK 1.6 Maven 3.0 or higher ( maven.apache.org/ ). Subversion If you have already completed this requirement you can Basics Of Mahout. Mahout is an open source machine learning library from Apache. The algorithms it implements fall under the broad umbrella of machine learning or collective intelligence. Apache Mahout is a simple programming environment and also a framework for building algorithms for Scala, Apache Spark, H2O, Apache Flink and so on. Samsara is part of Mahout, an experimentation environment with R like syntax. Here is how to install Apache Mahout on Ubuntu 16.04 for machine learning development. This guide will show commands to Mahout is closely tied to Apache Hadoop, because many of Mahout's libraries use the Hadoop platform. This post details how to install and set up Apache Mahout on top of IBM Open Platform 4.2 (IOP 4.2). Get started. Be sure to install and set up IOP 4.2 before installing Mahout on the head node of your IOP cluster. Install ViennaCL 1.7.0+ If running Ubuntu 16.04+ sudo apt-get install libviennacl-dev Otherwise if your distribution's package manager does not have a viennniacl-dev package >1.7.0, clone it directly into the directory which will be included in when being compiled by Mahout: When building While waiting for the VMware OVA file to download, you can watch the below sandbox overview video from Hortonworks (8 minutes 35 seconds) and read the sandbox installation instructions. Step 3: Run Hadoop! How would I insta