1. A system for support vector machine processing comprising: data stored in the system; a client application programming interface operable to provide an interface to client software; a build unit operable to build a support vector machine model on at least a portion of the data stored in the system, based on a plurality of model-building parameters; a parameter estimation unit operable to estimate values for at least some of the model-building parameters; and an apply unit operable to apply the support vector machine model using the data stored in the system.