I think Spark is from the Berkeley AMPLabs which is primarily focused of machine intelligence, data mining and artificial intelligence in general. Most, if not

I think Spark is from the Berkeley AMPLabs which is primarily focused of machine intelligence, data mining and artificial intelligence in general. Most, if not all, of there projects (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/ https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/) are geared at solving similar problems. I just don't see how this particular application is so important. At most, it seems to be demonstration of sparks capacities but again it was geared for high performance cluster computing anyways.