title: High volume SVM (machine learning) system
body: <p>I working on a possible machine learning project that would be expected to do high speed computations for machine learning using SVM (support vector machines) and possibly some ANN.</p>
  
  <p>I'm resonably comfortable working on matlab with these, but primarly in small datasets, just for experimentation. I'm wondering if this matlab based approach will scale? or should i be looking into something else? C++ / gpu based computing? java wrapping of the matlab code and pushing it onto app engine?</p>
  
  <p>Incidentally, there seems to be a lot fo literature on GPUs, but not much on how useful they are on machine learning applications using matlab, &amp; the cheapest CUDA enlabled GPU money can buy? is it even worth the trouble?</p>