I have Datastax Enterprise 4.6 installed on a cluster - and it's working fine.
Then, a have another instance of dse 4.6 installed on a separate machine (let's call it the "build_node"; it is located in the same data center as the cluster), and I would like to use it to submit jobs to the master on the cluster.
As a starting point, I run a spark shell from the build_node, with the remote master (the one on the cluster), and execute a trivial command such as sc.parallelize(1 to 100).count - and it's working fine.
With such spark shell still open, I execute in another terminal another spark shell: it complains that Service 'SparkUI' could not bind on port 4040. Attempting port 4041. (reasonable), but it seems anyway connected to the remote spark master. However, when I execute the very same trivial command as above, after a while it starts issuing warning messages such as:
15/01/12 12:37:59 WARN TaskSchedulerImpl: Initial job has not accepted any resources; check your cluster UI to ensure that workers are registered and have sufficient memory
which, as is, does not make any sense to me given that I have not changed any memory option or such and moreover the very same command succeeded in the first shell. It keeps printing multiple times such message, and after a couple of minutes I killed the process (the one in the first shell returned in a few seconds).
Does anyone can explain what's going on, and possibly suggest how (if possible at all) run multiple spark shells from a machine connected to the same remote master?
Of course any suggestion on how to debug (logs, parameters to set etc) is also of great help.
FYI, I run the shell with the command: dse spark --master spark://<master ip>:<master port>
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newbie here, but really enjoyed Spark so far.
I did the following (using a laptop, running Windows 7):
start the master by using command prompt window:
spark-class org.apache.spark.deploy.master.Master
start one worker by typing the following:
spark-class org.apache.spark.deploy.worker.Worker spark://localhost:7077
repeat step 2, in other words, start another worker by using the same above command.
Now, I have one master, two workers, all in the same physical machine. Based on what I have been reading, this should be considered as the "local mode"... not sure about this, hope someone can confirm?
Also, from what I have read, local mode should have master and workers in one SINGLE JVM. But by running a small utility code, I can see that master is in one JVM, and two workers each stays in one JVM, so there are three JVMs, and they are different JVMs.
Can someone tell me which part I did wrong, or, what is the problem with my understanding?
Also, for this local model, there is no cluster manager, right?
Many thanks!
Local mode is a single JVM. Local mode is when you specify the master, via --master command line switch, as local[*]. This can be done via spark-submit or spark-shell.
This explains it pretty well.
Now, I have one master, two workers, all in the same physical machine. Based on what I have been reading, this should be considered as the "local mode"... not sure about this, hope someone can confirm?
It is not. It is a standalone mode, where you Spark's own cluster manager. Unlike local it is fully distributed. It will use:
For cluster manager:
Single JVM for each cluster master (one in your case, more in HA mode).
Single JVM for each started worker.
Optionally additional JVMs for services like history server, or shuffle service.
For application:
Single JVM for the driver.
Single JVM for each executor.
In local mode there is only one JVM, as already stated by Greg
The spark docs have the following paragraph that describes the difference between yarn client and yarn cluster:
There are two deploy modes that can be used to launch Spark applications on YARN. In cluster mode, the Spark driver runs inside an application master process which is managed by YARN on the cluster, and the client can go away after initiating the application. In client mode, the driver runs in the client process, and the application master is only used for requesting resources from YARN.
I'm assuming there are two choices for a reason. If so, how do you choose which one to use?
Please use facts to justify your response so that this question and answer(s) meet stackoverflow's requirements.
There are a few similar questions on stackoverflow, however those questions focus on the difference between the two approaches, but don't focus on when one approach is more suitable than the other.
A common deployment strategy is to submit your application from a gateway machine that is physically co-located with your worker machines (e.g. Master node in a standalone EC2 cluster). In this setup, client mode is appropriate. In client mode, the driver is launched directly within the spark-submit process which acts as a client to the cluster. The input and output of the application is attached to the console. Thus, this mode is especially suitable for applications that involve the REPL (e.g. Spark shell).
Alternatively, if your application is submitted from a machine far from the worker machines (e.g. locally on your laptop), it is common to use cluster mode to minimize network latency between the drivers and the executors. Note that cluster mode is currently not supported for Mesos clusters. Currently only YARN supports cluster mode for Python applications." -- Submitting Applications
What I understand from this is that both strategies use the cluster to distribute tasks; the difference is where the "driver program" runs: locally with spark-submit, or, also in the cluster.
When you should use either of them is detailed in the quote above, but I also did another thing: for big jars, I used rsync to copy them to the cluster (or even to master node) with 100 times the network speed, and then submitted from the cluster. This can be better than "cluster mode" for big jars. Note that client mode does not probably transfer the jar to the master. At that point the difference between the 2 is minimal. Probably client mode is better when the driver program is idle most of the time, to make full use of cores on the local machine and perhaps avoid transferring the jar to the master (even on loopback interface a big jar takes quite a bit of seconds). And with client mode you can transfer (rsync) the jar on any cluster node.
On the other hand, if the driver is very intensive, in cpu or I/O, cluster mode may be more appropriate, to better balance the cluster (in client mode, the local machine would run both the driver and as many workers as possible, making it over loaded and making it that local tasks will be slower, making it such that the whole job may end up waiting for a couple of tasks from the local machine).
Conclusion :
To sum up, if I am in the same local network with the cluster, I would
use the client mode and submit it from my laptop. If the cluster is
far away, I would either submit locally with cluster mode, or rsync
the jar to the remote cluster and submit it there, in client or
cluster mode, depending on how heavy the driver program is on
resources.*
AFAIK With the driver program running in the cluster, it is less vulnerable to remote disconnects crashing the driver and the entire spark job.This is especially useful for long running jobs such as stream processing type workloads.
Spark Jobs Running on YARN
When running Spark on YARN, each Spark executor runs as a YARN container. Where MapReduce schedules a container and fires up a JVM for each task, Spark hosts multiple tasks within the same container. This approach enables several orders of magnitude faster task startup time.
Spark supports two modes for running on YARN, “yarn-cluster” mode and “yarn-client” mode. Broadly, yarn-cluster mode makes sense for production jobs, while yarn-client mode makes sense for interactive and debugging uses where you want to see your application’s output immediately.
Understanding the difference requires an understanding of YARN’s Application Master concept. In YARN, each application instance has an Application Master process, which is the first container started for that application. The application is responsible for requesting resources from the ResourceManager, and, when allocated them, telling NodeManagers to start containers on its behalf. Application Masters obviate the need for an active client — the process starting the application can go away and coordination continues from a process managed by YARN running on the cluster.
In yarn-cluster mode, the driver runs in the Application Master. This means that the same process is responsible for both driving the application and requesting resources from YARN, and this process runs inside a YARN container. The client that starts the app doesn’t need to stick around for its entire lifetime.
yarn-cluster mode
The yarn-cluster mode is not well suited to using Spark interactively, but the yarn-client mode is. Spark applications that require user input, like spark-shell and PySpark, need the Spark driver to run inside the client process that initiates the Spark application. In yarn-client mode, the Application Master is merely present to request executor containers from YARN. The client communicates with those containers to schedule work after they start:
yarn-client mode
This table offers a concise list of differences between these modes:
Reference: https://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/05/apache-spark-resource-management-and-yarn-app-models/ - Apache Spark Resource Management and YARN App Models (web.archive.com mirror)
In yarn-cluster mode, the driver program will run on the node where application master is running where as in yarn-client mode the driver program will run on the node on which job is submitted on centralized gateway node.
Both answers by Ram and Chavati/Wai Lee are useful and helpful, but here I just want to added a couple of other points:
Much has been written about the proximity of driver to the executors, and that is a big factor. The other factors are:
Will the driver process be around until execution of job is finished?
How's returned data being handled?
#1. In spark client mode, the driver process must be up and running the whole time when the spark job is in execution. So if you have a truly long job that say take many hours to run, you need to make sure the driver process is still up and running, and that the driver session is not auto-logout.
On the other hand, after submitting a job to run in cluster mode, the process can go away. The cluster mode will keep running. So this is typically how a production job will run: the job can be triggered by a timer, or by an external event and then the job will run to its completion without worrying about the lifetime of the process submitting the spark job.
#2. In client mode, you can call sc.collect() to gather all the data back from all executors, and then write/save the returned data to a local Linux file on local disk. Now this may not work for cluster mode, as the 'driver' typically run in a different remote host. The data written up therefore need to be persisted in a common mounted volume (such as GPFS, NFS) or in distributed file system like HDFS. If the job is running under Hadoop/YARN, the more common way for cluster mode is simply ask each executor to persist the data to HDFS, and not to run collect( ) at all. Collect() actually have scalability issue when there are a large number of executors returning large amount of data - it can overwhelm the driver process.
I want o run my spark tasks using for Amazon EC2 instances which I know all their IPs.
I want to have one computer as master and the other three could run worker nodes..can someone help me how I should configure spark for this task..should be standalone? I know how to set master node using
setMaster("SPARK://masterIP:7070");
but how to define worker nodes and assign them to the above master node?
If you are configuring you spark cluster manually you can start a standalone master server by executing :
./sbin/start-master.sh
Once started, the master will print out a spark://HOST:PORT URL for itself, which you can use to connect workers to it, or pass as the “master” argument to SparkContext. You can also find this URL on the master’s web UI, which is http://localhost:8080 by default.
ADDING WORKERS :
Now you can start one or more workers and connect them to the master via:
./sbin/start-slave.sh
Once you have started a worker, look at the master’s web UI (http://localhost:8080 by default). You should see the new node listed there, along with its number of CPUs and memory (minus one gigabyte left for the OS).
for more info you can check spark website starting-a-cluster-manually
EDIT
TO RUN WORKERS FROM MASTER
To launch a Spark standalone cluster with the launch scripts, you should create a file called conf/slaves in your Spark directory, which must contain the hostnames of all the machines where you intend to start Spark workers, one per line. Note, the master machine accesses each of the worker machines via ssh (there should be password less ssh between master and worker machines).
After configuring conf/slaves file you should run two files :
sbin/start-master.sh - Starts a master instance on the machine the
script is executed on.
sbin/start-slaves.sh - Starts a slave instance on each machine
specified in the conf/slaves file.
For more info check Cluster Launch Scripts
I am trying to run a PySpark job on a Mesosphere cluster but I cannot seem to get it to run. I understand that Mesos does not support cluster deploy mode for PySpark applications and that it needs to be run in client mode. I believe this is where the problem lies.
When I try submitting a PySpark job I am getting the output below.
... socket.hpp:107] Shutdown failed on fd=48: Transport endpoint is not connected [107]
I believe that a spark job running in client mode needs to connect to the nodes directly and this is being blocked?
What configuration would I need to change to be able to run a PySpark job in client mode?
When running PySpark in client mode (meaning the driver is running where you invoke Python) the driver becomes the Mesos Framework. When this happens, the host the framework is running on needs to be able to connect to all nodes in the cluster, and they need to be able to connect back, meaning no NAT.
If this is indeed the cause of your problems, there are two environment variables that might be useful. If you can get a VPN in place, you can set LIBPROCESS_IP and SPARK_LOCAL_IP both to the IP of the host machine that cluster nodes can use to connect back to the driver.
Is it possible to verify from within the Spark shell what nodes if the shell is connected to the cluster or is running just in local mode? I'm hoping to use that to investigate the following problem:
I've used DSE to setup a small 3 node Cassandra Analytics cluster. I can log onto any of the 3 servers and run dse spark and bring up the Spark shell. I have also verified that all 3 servers have the Spark master configured by running dsetool sparkmaster.
However, when I run any task using the Spark shell, it appears that the it is only running locally. I ran a small test command:
val rdd = sc.cassandraTable("test", "test_table")
rdd.count
When I check the Spark Master webpage, I see that only one server is running the job.
I suspect that when I run dse spark it's running the shell in local mode. I looked up how to specific a master for the Spark 0.9.1 shell and even when I use MASTER=<sparkmaster> dse spark (from the Programming Guide) it still runs only in local mode.
Here's a walkthrough once you've started a DSE 4.5.1 cluster with 3 nodes, all set for Analytics Spark mode.
Once the cluster is up and running, you can determine which node is the Spark Master with command dsetool sparkmaster. This command just prints the current master; it does not affect which node is the master and does not start/stop it.
Point a web browser to the Spark Master web UI at the given IP address and port 7080. You should see 3 workers in the ALIVE state, and no Running Applications. (You may have some DEAD workers or Completed Applications if previous Spark jobs had happened on this cluster.)
Now on one node bring up the Spark shell with dse spark. If you check the Spark Master web UI, you should see one Running Application named "Spark shell". It will probably show 1 core allocated (the default).
If you click on the application ID link ("app-2014...") you'll see the details for that app, including one executor (worker). Any commands you give the Spark shell will run on this worker.
The default configuration is limiting the Spark master to only allowing each application to use 1 core, therefore the work will only be given to a single node.
To change this, login to the Spark master node and sudo edit the file /etc/dse/spark/spark-env.sh. Find the line that sets SPARK_MASTER_OPTS and remove the portion -Dspark.deploy.defaultCores=1. Then restart DSE on this node (sudo service dse restart).
Once it comes up, check the Spark master web UI and repeat the test with the Spark shell. You should see that it's been allocated more cores, and any jobs it performs will happen on multiple nodes.
In a production environment you'd want to set the number of cores more carefully so that a single job doesn't take all the resources.