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Marco Gaido 3eb315d714 [SPARK-19759][ML] not using blas in ALSModel.predict for optimization
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

In `ALS.predict` currently we are using `blas.sdot` function to perform a dot product on two `Seq`s. It turns out that this is not the most efficient way.

I used the following code to compare the implementations:

```
def time[R](block: => R): Unit = {
    val t0 = System.nanoTime()
    block
    val t1 = System.nanoTime()
    println("Elapsed time: " + (t1 - t0) + "ns")
}
val r = new scala.util.Random(100)
val input = (1 to 500000).map(_ => (1 to 100).map(_ => r.nextFloat).toSeq)
def f(a:Seq[Float], b:Seq[Float]): Float = {
    var r = 0.0f
    for(i <- 0 until a.length) {
        r+=a(i)*b(i)
    }
    r
}
import com.github.fommil.netlib.BLAS.{getInstance => blas}
val b = (1 to 100).map(_ => r.nextFloat).toSeq
time { input.foreach(a=>blas.sdot(100, a.toArray, 1, b.toArray, 1)) }
// on average it takes 2968718815 ns
time { input.foreach(a=>f(a,b)) }
// on average it takes 515510185 ns
```

Thus this PR proposes the old-style for loop implementation for performance reasons.

## How was this patch tested?

existing UTs

Author: Marco Gaido <mgaido@hortonworks.com>

Closes #19685 from mgaido91/SPARK-19759.
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.github [SPARK-18073][DOCS][WIP] Migrate wiki to spark.apache.org web site 2016-11-23 11:25:47 +00:00
assembly [SPARK-22066][BUILD] Update checkstyle to 8.2, enable it, fix violations 2017-09-20 10:01:46 +01:00
bin [SPARK-22466][SPARK SUBMIT] export SPARK_CONF_DIR while conf is default 2017-11-09 14:33:08 +09:00
build [SPARK-19810][BUILD][CORE] Remove support for Scala 2.10 2017-07-13 17:06:24 +08:00
common [SPARK-22454][CORE] ExternalShuffleClient.close() should check clientFactory null 2017-11-07 08:30:58 +00:00
conf [SPARK-22466][SPARK SUBMIT] export SPARK_CONF_DIR while conf is default 2017-11-09 14:33:08 +09:00
core [SPARK-22450][CORE][MLLIB] safely register class for mllib 2017-11-10 12:43:29 +01:00
data [SPARK-14516][ML][FOLLOW-UP] Move ClusteringEvaluatorSuite test data to data/mllib. 2017-11-07 20:07:30 -08:00
dev [SPARK-22376][TESTS] Makes dev/run-tests.py script compatible with Python 3 2017-11-07 19:45:34 +09:00
docs [DOC] update the API doc and modify the stage API description 2017-11-09 11:46:01 +01:00
examples [SPARK-20199][ML] : Provided featureSubsetStrategy to GBTClassifier and GBTRegressor 2017-11-10 13:17:25 +02:00
external [SPARK-22291][SQL] Conversion error when transforming array types of uuid, inet and cidr to StingType in PostgreSQL 2017-10-29 18:11:48 +01:00
graphx [SPARK-14540][BUILD] Support Scala 2.12 closures and Java 8 lambdas in ClosureCleaner (step 0) 2017-11-08 10:24:40 +00:00
hadoop-cloud [SPARK-7481][BUILD] Add spark-hadoop-cloud module to pull in object store access. 2017-05-07 10:15:31 +01:00
launcher [SPARK-22287][MESOS] SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY not honored by MesosClusterD… 2017-11-09 16:42:33 -08:00
licenses [SPARK-19112][CORE] Support for ZStandard codec 2017-11-01 14:54:08 +01:00
mllib [SPARK-19759][ML] not using blas in ALSModel.predict for optimization 2017-11-11 04:10:54 -06:00
mllib-local [SPARK-14280][BUILD][WIP] Update change-version.sh and pom.xml to add Scala 2.12 profiles and enable 2.12 compilation 2017-09-01 19:21:21 +01:00
project [SPARK-22485][BUILD] Use exclude[Problem] instead excludePackage in MiMa 2017-11-09 16:40:19 -08:00
python [SPARK-21640][SQL][PYTHON][R][FOLLOWUP] Add errorifexists in SparkR and other documentations 2017-11-09 15:00:31 +09:00
R [SPARK-22344][SPARKR] clean up install dir if running test as source package 2017-11-10 10:22:42 -08:00
repl [SPARK-14650][REPL][BUILD] Compile Spark REPL for Scala 2.12 2017-11-02 09:45:34 +00:00
resource-managers [SPARK-22463][YARN][SQL][HIVE] add hadoop/hive/hbase/etc configuration files in SPARK_CONF_DIR to distribute archive 2017-11-09 09:22:33 +01:00
sbin [SPARK-21278][PYSPARK] Upgrade to Py4J 0.10.6 2017-07-05 16:33:23 -07:00
sql [SPARK-21667][STREAMING] ConsoleSink should not fail streaming query with checkpointLocation option 2017-11-10 15:18:11 -08:00
streaming [SPARK-22294][DEPLOY] Reset spark.driver.bindAddress when starting a Checkpoint 2017-11-10 10:57:58 -08:00
tools [SPARK-14280][BUILD][WIP] Update change-version.sh and pom.xml to add Scala 2.12 profiles and enable 2.12 compilation 2017-09-01 19:21:21 +01:00
.gitattributes [SPARK-3870] EOL character enforcement 2014-10-31 12:39:52 -07:00
.gitignore [SPARK-21485][SQL][DOCS] Spark SQL documentation generation for built-in functions 2017-07-26 09:38:51 -07:00
.travis.yml [SPARK-19801][BUILD] Remove JDK7 from Travis CI 2017-03-03 12:00:54 +01:00
appveyor.yml [BUILD][TEST][SPARKR] add sparksubmitsuite to appveyor tests 2017-09-11 09:32:25 +09:00
CONTRIBUTING.md [SPARK-18073][DOCS][WIP] Migrate wiki to spark.apache.org web site 2016-11-23 11:25:47 +00:00
LICENSE [SPARK-19112][CORE] Support for ZStandard codec 2017-11-01 14:54:08 +01:00
NOTICE [SPARK-18262][BUILD][SQL] JSON.org license is now CatX 2016-11-10 10:20:03 -08:00
pom.xml [SPARK-14650][REPL][BUILD] Compile Spark REPL for Scala 2.12 2017-11-02 09:45:34 +00:00
README.md [MINOR][DOCS] Replace non-breaking space to normal spaces that breaks rendering markdown 2017-04-03 10:09:11 +01:00
scalastyle-config.xml [SPARK-20642][CORE] Store FsHistoryProvider listing data in a KVStore. 2017-09-27 20:33:41 +08:00

Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

http://spark.apache.org/

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Building Spark

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scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

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./bin/pyspark

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>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

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