YARN 3 and Spark: allocate a GPU to executors only












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I can't find the Spark option to require executors with a GPU.



I'm trying to setup a HADOOP cluster in order to run Machine Learning algorithms on available GPUs via Spark.



So far I'm trying out my setup with a minimal cluster (1 resource manager and 2 node managers (each with 8cores, 32Gb RAM, 1 Nvidia GPU), everybody running Ubuntu 18.04.



Resource discovery is working as expected (I see my 16 cores, 56Gb memory and 2 yarn.io/gpu)



I'm able to allocate GPUs while testing yarn jobs with yarn.io/gpu=1, but I'm struggling to do the same with spark-submit.



The documentation provides a way, by using "--conf spark.yarn.executor.resource.yarn.io/gpu=1" but this does not work for me (no effect at all, both in spark-submit command parameter or in $SPARK_CONF/metrics.properties).



The only workaround that I found so far was to set "yarn.resource-types.yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation" to 1 in resource-types.xml under $HADOOP_CONF_DIR, but this allocate a GPU to the Master as well, when I only want to target executors.



As YARN 3 is the first one to provide GPU isolation, I try to avoid a rollback to an older(/more documented) version.



I guess this could be set in code through SparkContext and would be happy to know how, but as I'm more on the admin side than ML engineer, I rather set this in conf files once and for all. Anyway at this point, any solution would be appreciated.



Anyone happy to provide the good syntax to allocate GPU with resources isolation enabled ?



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    I can't find the Spark option to require executors with a GPU.



    I'm trying to setup a HADOOP cluster in order to run Machine Learning algorithms on available GPUs via Spark.



    So far I'm trying out my setup with a minimal cluster (1 resource manager and 2 node managers (each with 8cores, 32Gb RAM, 1 Nvidia GPU), everybody running Ubuntu 18.04.



    Resource discovery is working as expected (I see my 16 cores, 56Gb memory and 2 yarn.io/gpu)



    I'm able to allocate GPUs while testing yarn jobs with yarn.io/gpu=1, but I'm struggling to do the same with spark-submit.



    The documentation provides a way, by using "--conf spark.yarn.executor.resource.yarn.io/gpu=1" but this does not work for me (no effect at all, both in spark-submit command parameter or in $SPARK_CONF/metrics.properties).



    The only workaround that I found so far was to set "yarn.resource-types.yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation" to 1 in resource-types.xml under $HADOOP_CONF_DIR, but this allocate a GPU to the Master as well, when I only want to target executors.



    As YARN 3 is the first one to provide GPU isolation, I try to avoid a rollback to an older(/more documented) version.



    I guess this could be set in code through SparkContext and would be happy to know how, but as I'm more on the admin side than ML engineer, I rather set this in conf files once and for all. Anyway at this point, any solution would be appreciated.



    Anyone happy to provide the good syntax to allocate GPU with resources isolation enabled ?



    Love you guys,
    Kevin










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      I can't find the Spark option to require executors with a GPU.



      I'm trying to setup a HADOOP cluster in order to run Machine Learning algorithms on available GPUs via Spark.



      So far I'm trying out my setup with a minimal cluster (1 resource manager and 2 node managers (each with 8cores, 32Gb RAM, 1 Nvidia GPU), everybody running Ubuntu 18.04.



      Resource discovery is working as expected (I see my 16 cores, 56Gb memory and 2 yarn.io/gpu)



      I'm able to allocate GPUs while testing yarn jobs with yarn.io/gpu=1, but I'm struggling to do the same with spark-submit.



      The documentation provides a way, by using "--conf spark.yarn.executor.resource.yarn.io/gpu=1" but this does not work for me (no effect at all, both in spark-submit command parameter or in $SPARK_CONF/metrics.properties).



      The only workaround that I found so far was to set "yarn.resource-types.yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation" to 1 in resource-types.xml under $HADOOP_CONF_DIR, but this allocate a GPU to the Master as well, when I only want to target executors.



      As YARN 3 is the first one to provide GPU isolation, I try to avoid a rollback to an older(/more documented) version.



      I guess this could be set in code through SparkContext and would be happy to know how, but as I'm more on the admin side than ML engineer, I rather set this in conf files once and for all. Anyway at this point, any solution would be appreciated.



      Anyone happy to provide the good syntax to allocate GPU with resources isolation enabled ?



      Love you guys,
      Kevin










      share|improve this question















      I can't find the Spark option to require executors with a GPU.



      I'm trying to setup a HADOOP cluster in order to run Machine Learning algorithms on available GPUs via Spark.



      So far I'm trying out my setup with a minimal cluster (1 resource manager and 2 node managers (each with 8cores, 32Gb RAM, 1 Nvidia GPU), everybody running Ubuntu 18.04.



      Resource discovery is working as expected (I see my 16 cores, 56Gb memory and 2 yarn.io/gpu)



      I'm able to allocate GPUs while testing yarn jobs with yarn.io/gpu=1, but I'm struggling to do the same with spark-submit.



      The documentation provides a way, by using "--conf spark.yarn.executor.resource.yarn.io/gpu=1" but this does not work for me (no effect at all, both in spark-submit command parameter or in $SPARK_CONF/metrics.properties).



      The only workaround that I found so far was to set "yarn.resource-types.yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation" to 1 in resource-types.xml under $HADOOP_CONF_DIR, but this allocate a GPU to the Master as well, when I only want to target executors.



      As YARN 3 is the first one to provide GPU isolation, I try to avoid a rollback to an older(/more documented) version.



      I guess this could be set in code through SparkContext and would be happy to know how, but as I'm more on the admin side than ML engineer, I rather set this in conf files once and for all. Anyway at this point, any solution would be appreciated.



      Anyone happy to provide the good syntax to allocate GPU with resources isolation enabled ?



      Love you guys,
      Kevin







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          Working trick for now:



          Set GPU isolation settings in yarn-site and consorts and run spark-submit in cluster mode without GPU.
          The Spark driver will run inside the AM container instantiated.
          From within your Spark app, through SparkContext, now set yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation to 1.
          This will take effect for the next containers allocations: your workers !



          Ugly, but efficient trusting my first tests.






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            Working trick for now:



            Set GPU isolation settings in yarn-site and consorts and run spark-submit in cluster mode without GPU.
            The Spark driver will run inside the AM container instantiated.
            From within your Spark app, through SparkContext, now set yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation to 1.
            This will take effect for the next containers allocations: your workers !



            Ugly, but efficient trusting my first tests.






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              Working trick for now:



              Set GPU isolation settings in yarn-site and consorts and run spark-submit in cluster mode without GPU.
              The Spark driver will run inside the AM container instantiated.
              From within your Spark app, through SparkContext, now set yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation to 1.
              This will take effect for the next containers allocations: your workers !



              Ugly, but efficient trusting my first tests.






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                Working trick for now:



                Set GPU isolation settings in yarn-site and consorts and run spark-submit in cluster mode without GPU.
                The Spark driver will run inside the AM container instantiated.
                From within your Spark app, through SparkContext, now set yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation to 1.
                This will take effect for the next containers allocations: your workers !



                Ugly, but efficient trusting my first tests.






                share|improve this answer












                Working trick for now:



                Set GPU isolation settings in yarn-site and consorts and run spark-submit in cluster mode without GPU.
                The Spark driver will run inside the AM container instantiated.
                From within your Spark app, through SparkContext, now set yarn.io/gpu.minimum-allocation to 1.
                This will take effect for the next containers allocations: your workers !



                Ugly, but efficient trusting my first tests.







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