Sorry Steven, Sergey, saw the email late. If there is an informal meetup tonight, please let me know :)
Else see you on IRC debo On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Steven Dake (stdake) <std...@cisco.com> wrote: > Debo, > > The Sahara cats are having a contributors meetup right now in room 218. > @ ODS. I have prior commitments so won’t be able to attend, but perhaps > some of the cognitive folks could make the meetup there. > > Sergey, > > If the Sahara contributors plan on walking the city tonight, feel free > to send me info off-list and I’ll try to make it. > > Regards > -steve > > > From: Sergey Lukjanov <slukja...@mirantis.com> > Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" < > openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Date: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 9:21 AM > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" < > openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [new][cognitive] Announcing Cognitive - a > project to deliver Machine Learning as a Service for OpenStack > > So, in case if Cognitive will use Sahara to create big data clusters - > then it sounds ok. > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Debojyoti Dutta <ddu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One more thing and a typo in my mail - we would be happy to point folks >> to an very early version (in Django) we prototyped and opened up recently. >> >> thx >> debo >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Debojyoti Dutta <ddu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sergey >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your interest. The bare bones API proposal is up on >>> the wiki page http://wiki.openstack.org/Cognitive >>> >>> Sahara is about deploying and managing big data workloads like hadoop, >>> spark etc. Cognitive is about a simple API to do predictive analytics, >>> learning, data science workflow etc etc. Thus the goals are different. AWS >>> has Elastic MapReduce (in the same space as Sahara) and also AWS Machine >>> Learning (http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/) for which there is >>> no parallel. Should we point them to our internal 1st version of Cognitive >>> on our github which we opened. >>> >>> If it requires to use big data toolchains to do our job, we will >>> definitely leverage Sahara for that, and not replicate the good work done >>> in Sahara. Our primary goal is to build (within the community) a simple >>> machine learning API (and a service) that abstracts the pain of data >>> science for the app developer. >>> >>> >>> thx >>> >>> debo >>> >>> >>> PS: FWIW I am at the summit till tonight so we could catch up here. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Sergey Lukjanov <slukja...@mirantis.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> as there is no any details on the project yet done, if this project >>>> will deploy ML frameworks it'll be direct duplication of Sahara's >>>> functionality (we already support HDP and CDH deployments and they are >>>> provided tons of tools for ML). So, I think that it could be built on top >>>> of Sahara or even as part of Sahara probably. I'd like to propose you to >>>> take a deeper look on Sahara and avoid duplicating it. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Debojyoti Dutta <ddu...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Salvatore >>>>> >>>>> Thanks a lot for your comments. >>>>> >>>>> Timing: Yes it is time to do this! The nature of applications >>>>> running on clouds is indeed changing. >>>>> >>>>> Initial group: We asked around for folks interested and we got a lot >>>>> more people than we expected. The idea is to get something out there in a >>>>> stack forge project and build something good. This group already has >>>>> people >>>>> who have built things like this already in the past. Hence confident about >>>>> the success. >>>>> >>>>> Participation: We want this to be inclusive from scratch independent >>>>> of who is a PTL or a contributor or merely a curious individual to give us >>>>> ideas :) The community will get it right. Maybe I should have clarified >>>>> that these are the members interested in seeing this happen. >>>>> >>>>> Wiki page: The wiki page will be ready in 1-2 days. Also we would >>>>> like to have a discussion during the summit to see what we should build in >>>>> the community. Would be delighted to get your thoughts. >>>>> >>>>> Services: Some of the services this could provide: >>>>> * create experiments: define data sources, train models, then perform >>>>> classification, clustering, data cleaning etc. >>>>> * have experiment templates that can be reused >>>>> * have an editor (maybe a horizon plugin) to drag and drop the >>>>> workflow and generate an API that when called from an app would provide >>>>> results >>>>> * ML primitives that could be targeted initially: 1) classification >>>>> 2) clustering 3) Anomaly detection >>>>> >>>>> thx >>>>> debo >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Salvatore Orlando < >>>>> sorla...@nicira.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 15 May 2015 at 00:19, Debojyoti Dutta <ddu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It is a great pleasure to announce the development of a new >>>>>>> project called Cognitive. Cognitive provides Machine Learning [1] as a >>>>>>> Service that enables operators to offer next generation data science >>>>>>> based >>>>>>> services on top of their OpenStack Clouds. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I was indeed wondering when "Machine Learning as a Service" would >>>>>> come up... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> This project will begin as a StackForge project baed upon an empty >>>>>>> cookiecutter [2] repo. The repos to work in are: >>>>>>> Server: https://github.com/stackforge/cognitive >>>>>>> Client: https://github.com/stackforge/python-cognitiveclient >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please join us via iRC on #openstack-cognitive on freenode. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We will be holding a doodle poll to select times for our first >>>>>>> meeting the week after summit. This doodle poll will close May 24th and >>>>>>> meeting times will be announced on the mailing list at that time. At >>>>>>> our >>>>>>> first IRC meeting, we will draft additional core team members. We would >>>>>>> like to invite interested individuals to join this exciting new >>>>>>> development >>>>>>> effort! >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From my little experience, "drafting" core members before even >>>>>> actually having a code base has drawbacks. Also, it seems the initial >>>>>> starting team is already large enough for ensuring support for 1 or 2 >>>>>> release cycle. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Please commit your schedule in the doodle poll here: >>>>>>> http://doodle.com/drrka5tgbwpbfbxy >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Initial core team: Steven Dake, Aparupa Das Gupa, Debo~ Dutta, >>>>>>> Johnu George, Kyle Mestery, Sarvesh Ranjan, Ralf Rantzau, Komei >>>>>>> Shimamura, >>>>>>> Marc Solanas, Manoj Sharma, Yathi Udupi, Kai Zhang. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hey! What's the Neutron PTL doing there? Sorry we need his reviews >>>>>> we can't loan it to you! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A little bit about Cognitive: >>>>>>> Data driven applications on cloud infrastructure increasingly rely >>>>>>> on Machine Learning. Most data driven applications today use Machine >>>>>>> Learning (ML). This often requires application developers and data >>>>>>> scientists to write their own machine learning stack or deploy other >>>>>>> packages to do any kind of data science based applications. Data >>>>>>> scientists >>>>>>> also need to have an easy way to rapidly experiment with data without >>>>>>> having to write basic infrastructure for data manipulations. Cognitive >>>>>>> is a >>>>>>> Machine Learning service on top of OpenStack and provides machine >>>>>>> learning >>>>>>> based services to tenants (API, workbench, compute service). >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I wonder what kind of services you would offer; also you could have >>>>>> shared something about the architecture of this service. Is it providing >>>>>> a >>>>>> full machine learning stack, or just facilitating the use of existing >>>>>> one? >>>>>> >>>>>> But I see that there's a link to a wiki page below. This might have >>>>>> all the answers. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For information about blueprints check out: >>>>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cognitive >>>>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-cognitiveclient >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For more details, check out our Wiki: >>>>>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cognitive >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ... and unfortunately the wiki is empty ;) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please join the awesome Cognitive team in designing a world class >>>>>>> Machine Learning as a Service solution. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We look forward to seeing you on IRC on #openstack-cognitive. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> Debo~ Dutta (on behalf of the initial team) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning >>>>>>> [2] https://github.com/openstack-dev/cookiecutter >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>>>>>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>>>> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>>>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>>>>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>>> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -Debo~ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>>>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sincerely yours, >>>> Sergey Lukjanov >>>> Sahara Technical Lead >>>> (OpenStack Data Processing) >>>> Principal Software Engineer >>>> Mirantis Inc. >>>> >>>> >>>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>>> Unsubscribe: >>>> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -Debo~ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -Debo~ >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: >> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Sergey Lukjanov > Sahara Technical Lead > (OpenStack Data Processing) > Principal Software Engineer > Mirantis Inc. > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- -Debo~
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