Parallel Data Mining

Poll

Have you done data mining work on parallel computers, including multi-core chips, in your current work: [103 votes total] Never (52) 50% A few times (14) 14% Frequently, but it is not essential for my work (8) 8% Regularly - it is essential for my work (17) 17% Only Indirectly, via DBMS on parallel hardware (7) 7% Not sure (5) 5%

Comments

Dave Watkins, SPSS, Scoring
I don't generally build models using parallel hardware, but when it comes to scoring very large amounts of data (from 50m rows to over 10 billion rows), using parallel or grid computing has proven invaluable.