DC/OS Data Science Engine comes with Apache Spark integration and allows you to run Spark jobs from notebooks and a terminal.

Launching a Spark job

Using Terminal

Open a Terminal from the Notebook UI and run this example spark-submit job:

spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi http://downloads.mesosphere.com/spark/assets/spark-examples_2.11-2.4.0.jar 100

Using a Python Notebook

Open a Python Notebook and put the following code in a code cell.

from __future__ import print_function
from random import random
from operator import add
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("Spark Pi").getOrCreate()

partitions = 100
n = 100000 * partitions

def f(_):
    x = random() * 2 - 1
    y = random() * 2 - 1
    return 1 if x ** 2 + y ** 2 <= 1 else 0

count = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(range(1, n + 1), partitions).map(f).reduce(add)
print("Pi is roughly %f" % (4.0 * count / n))

spark.stop()

Spark UI

The Spark UI starts automatically when a SparkContext is created, and is available at

http://<dcos_url>/service/data-science-engine/sparkui

Spark History Server

DC/OS Data Science Engine includes the Spark History Server (SHS), which is up and running by default, using org.apache.spark.deploy.history.FsHistoryProvider as a default provider, with spark.history.fs.logDirectory set to file:/mns/mesos/sandbox/. It is highly recommended to use HDFS as the backend storage for SHS.

You can configure SHS to use HDFS with the following steps:

Installing HDFS

NOTE: HDFS requires at least five private nodes.

Install HDFS:
```
dcos package install hdfs
```

Create a history HDFS directory (default is /history). SSH into your cluster and run:

docker run -it mesosphere/hdfs-client:1.0.0-2.6.0 bash
./bin/hdfs dfs -mkdir /history

Configuring Spark History Server

Configure Spark History Log Directory to point to the created HDFS directory in service.json:
```
{
    "service": {
        "jupyter_conf_urls": "<DCOS HDFS endpoint>"
    },
    "spark": {
        "start_spark_history_server": true,
        "spark_history_fs_logdirectory": "hdfs://hdfs/history"
    }
}
```
To find more about configuring HDFS integration of DSEngine, see the Using HDFS with DC/OS Data Science Engine documentation.

Enable the Spark Event log and set the HDFS directory:

{
    "spark": {
        "start_spark_history_server": true,
        "spark_history_fs_logdirectory": "hdfs://hdfs/history",
        "spark_eventlog_enabled": true,
        "spark_eventlog_dir": "hdfs://hdfs/history"
    }
}

Restart the data-science-engine service to apply the changes.

Confirm Spark History Server installation

The Spark History Server UI is available at http://<dcos_url>/service/data-science-engine/sparkhistory, listing incomplete and completed applications and attempts.

Spark

Using Spark with DC/OS Data Science Engine