Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform

Re:Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform by vosper on Sunday November 01, 2015 @10:41AM (#10486712)

There are so many Apache projects these days (mostly seem to be in the incubator) - where do they all come from? I had once thought that Apache was a dumping ground for the technology of failed startups, but a lot of these projects seem to find new life in the incubator - so they must be doing something right.

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Re:Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform by AlphaSite on Sunday November 01, 2015 @11:15AM (#10486821)

The list of big name Apache projects is nuts, look at their project lists and you can easily pull out dozens of big projects and even incubator has a few popular projects.

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Re:Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform by monksy on Sunday November 01, 2015 @07:32PM (#10489221)

It's hard to find whats worthwhile and what isn't.

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Re:Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform by mindcrime on Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:12PM (#10489546)

where do they all come from?

From what I've seen, there are two major sources, and one slightly less prevalent one:

1. Big companies. If you go through the incubator, you'll find quite a few projects where there was a large code grant, and many initial contributors, from one large company or another. Facebook, IBM, Yahoo, Oracle, etc.

2. Academia. A lot of projects are existing OSS projects being developed as part of academic research, and now the team wants to formalize the project structure and get the project to a wide audience.

The slightly less prevalent one:

3. Just ordinary OSS projects developed $WHEREVER, not necessarily affiliated with any company or university, and the team just decide that Apache would make a good home for their project.

Anyway, I definitely wouldn't call the ASF "a dumping ground for the technology of failed startups". If anything the incubator is designed to prevent that sort of thing. If projects don't successfully complete incubation, they don't become full fledged TLPs. Now, there are people who quibble over how long some projects linger in the incubator, sometimes in a sort of half-dead/half-alive zombie state, but by and large the process works pretty well.

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Re:Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform by jkovacs on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:44PM (#10489036)

Lots of these (including this one) come out of universities, or university-corporate research partnerships. Personally I'm very glad that universities nowadays seem to be more okay with publishing tangible results (i.e. source code) as opposed to "just" the research papers. I don't think it's always been that way. I can't begin to imagine the amount of work that is rotting on someone's old usb stick, because they weren't allowed to publish their PhD theses's source code.

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