[SPARK-6019] Document linking with high-performance BLAS libraries

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Documentation, MLlib
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Xiangrui Meng
• Reporter: Joseph K. Bradley
• Created: 25/Feb/15 23:34
• Updated: 19/May/15 05:28
• Resolved: 30/Apr/15 21:38

Description

Even though we may not be able to provide high-performance BLAS libraries (due to licenses, system dependencies, etc.), we could provide better documentation about how to link with such libraries on various systems. This could be a new section in the MLlib programming guide.

Tuned libraries can be much faster than default ones. See discussion on this dev@spark thread .