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diff --git a/docs/mllib-guide.md b/docs/mllib-guide.md index 7779fbc9c4..3d32d03e35 100644 --- a/docs/mllib-guide.md +++ b/docs/mllib-guide.md @@ -56,25 +56,32 @@ See the **[spark.ml programming guide](ml-guide.html)** for more information on # Dependencies -MLlib uses the linear algebra package [Breeze](http://www.scalanlp.org/), -which depends on [netlib-java](https://github.com/fommil/netlib-java), -and [jblas](https://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas). -`netlib-java` and `jblas` depend on native Fortran routines. -You need to install the +MLlib uses the linear algebra package +[Breeze](http://www.scalanlp.org/), which depends on +[netlib-java](https://github.com/fommil/netlib-java) for optimised +numerical processing. If natives are not available at runtime, you +will see a warning message and a pure JVM implementation will be used +instead. + +To learn more about the benefits and background of system optimised +natives, you may wish to watch Sam Halliday's ScalaX talk on +[High Performance Linear Algebra in Scala](http://fommil.github.io/scalax14/#/)). + +Due to licensing issues with runtime proprietary binaries, we do not +include `netlib-java`'s native proxies by default. To configure +`netlib-java` / Breeze to use system optimised binaries, include +`com.github.fommil.netlib:all:1.1.2` (or build Spark with +`-Pnetlib-lgpl`) as a dependency of your project and read the +[netlib-java](https://github.com/fommil/netlib-java) documentation for +your platform's additional installation instructions. + +MLlib also uses [jblas](https://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas) which +will require you to install the [gfortran runtime library](https://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas/wiki/Missing-Libraries) if it is not already present on your nodes. -MLlib will throw a linking error if it cannot detect these libraries automatically. -Due to license issues, we do not include `netlib-java`'s native libraries in MLlib's -dependency set under default settings. -If no native library is available at runtime, you will see a warning message. -To use native libraries from `netlib-java`, please build Spark with `-Pnetlib-lgpl` or -include `com.github.fommil.netlib:all:1.1.2` as a dependency of your project. -If you want to use optimized BLAS/LAPACK libraries such as -[OpenBLAS](http://www.openblas.net/), please link its shared libraries to -`/usr/lib/libblas.so.3` and `/usr/lib/liblapack.so.3`, respectively. -BLAS/LAPACK libraries on worker nodes should be built without multithreading. - -To use MLlib in Python, you will need [NumPy](http://www.numpy.org) version 1.4 or newer. + +To use MLlib in Python, you will need [NumPy](http://www.numpy.org) +version 1.4 or newer. --- |