In this paper we argue that parallel and/or distributed compute resources can be used differently: instead of focusing on speeding up algorithms, we propose to focus on improving accuracy. In a nutshell, the goal is to tune data mining algorithms to produce better results in the same time rather than producing similar results a lot faster. We discuss a number of generic ways of tuning data mining algorithms and elaborate on two prominent examples in more detail. A series of exemplary experiments is used to illustrate the effect such use of parallel resources can have.
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