edit: local[1] has been updated to local[N], thank you for the update!
Ok thanks, I didn't know that's what "local[1]" did, so the more relevant comparison would be with --master local[30]?
The algorithm took around 500 seconds to train on the NETFLIX dataset on a SINGLE processor, which is good for data as large as 1 billion ratings. - this is from the sequential portion of the test, the parallel portion is the next section.