Nvidia Spark-RAPIDS Accelerator for Spark
This topic describes Nvidia spark-rapids
accelerator support for
Spark.
Starting from HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.5.0, you can use RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark by Nividia to accelerate the processing for Spark by using the GPUs.
For details on Spark support for requesting and scheduling GPUs for executors, see Custom Resource Scheduling and Configuration Overview.
The GPU image (spark-gpu-<spark-version>), for example: spark-gpu-3.2.0, has built-in RAPIDS plugin in HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise.
To allocate GPUs and enable RAPIDS plugin, set
sparkConf
option. For
configuration details, see .NOTE
You must set spark.rapids.force.caller.classloader
option to
false
.For full list of configuration details for RAPIDS, see RAPIDS Configuration.