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Advanced Spark Programming
Shared variables:
● When we pass functions such map()
● Every node gets a copy of the variable
● The change to these variables is not communicated back
● After starting of the map(), changes to the variable on driver
doesn't impact the worker.
Two Kinds:
1. Accumulators to aggregate information
2. Broadcast variables to efficiently distribute large values

SHARED MEMORY - Accumulators
+= 10 += 20
are only “added” to
through associative operation
assoc.: 2+3+4=2+4+3=9

● Accumulators are variables that are only “added” to through an
associative operation
● Can therefore be efficiently supported in parallel.
● They can be used to implement counters (as in MapReduce) or
sums.
Accumulators

Accumulator : Empty line count
https://gist.github.com/girisandeep/161d1d5ea09517b1ab44df81b9b148c0

sc.setLogLevel("ERROR")

var file = sc.textFile("/data/mr/wordcount/input/")

var numBlankLines = sc.accumulator(0)

def toWords(line:String): Array[String] = {
if(line.length == 0) {numBlankLines += 1}
return line.split(" ");
}

}
var words = file.flatMap(toWords)
words.saveAsTextFile("words3")

}
var words = file.flatMap(toWords)
words.saveAsTextFile("words3")
printf("Blank lines: %d", numBlankLines.value)
//Blank lines: 24857

● Spark Re-executes failed or slow tasks.
● Preemptively launches “speculative” copy of slow worker task
The net result is ???
Accumulators and Fault Tolerance

The net result is: The same function may run multiple times on the
same data.

same data.
Does it mean accumulators will give wrong result?

same data.
Does it mean accumulators will give wrong result?
YES, for accumulators in Transformation.
No, for accumulators in Action

○ For accumulators in actions, Each task’s accumulator update
applied once.
○ For reliable absolute value counter, put it inside an action
○ In transformations, this guarantee doesn't exist.
○ In transformations, use accumulators for debug only.

Custom Accumulators
● Out of the box, Spark supports accumulators of type Double, Long,
and Float.
● Spark also includes an API to define custom accumulator types
and custom aggregation operations
○ (e.g., finding the maximum of the accumulated values instead of
adding them).
● Custom accumulators need to extend AccumulatorV2.

Custom Accumulators - version 1.x

class MyComplex(var x: Int, var y: Int) extends Serializable{
def reset(): Unit = {
x = 0
y = 0
}
def add(p:MyComplex): MyComplex = {
x = x + p.x
y = y + p.y
return this
}
}
https://gist.github.com/girisandeep/450ff3d29f20f2e31cdd09ad0f1c0df2

import org.apache.spark.AccumulatorParam
class ComplexAccumulatorV1 extends AccumulatorParam[MyComplex] {
def zero(initialVal: MyComplex): MyComplex = {
return initialVal
}
def addInPlace(v1: MyComplex, v2: MyComplex): MyComplex = {
v1.add(v2)
return v1;
}
}

val vecAccum = sc.accumulator(new MyComplex(0,0))(new ComplexAccumulatorV1)

var myrdd = sc.parallelize(Array(1,2,3))
def myfunc(x:Int):Int = {
vecAccum += new MyComplex(x, x)
return x * 3
}
var myrdd1 = myrdd.map(myfunc)

var myrdd = sc.parallelize(Array(1,2,3))
def myfunc(x:Int):Int = {
vecAccum += new MyComplex(x, x)
return x * 3
}
var myrdd1 = myrdd.map(myfunc)
myrdd1.collect()
vecAccum.value.x
vecAccum.value.y

import org.apache.spark.util.AccumulatorV2
object ComplexAccumulatorV2 extends AccumulatorV2[MyComplex, MyComplex] {
private val myc:MyComplex = new MyComplex(0,0)
def reset(): Unit = {
myc.reset()
}
def add(v: MyComplex): Unit = {
myc.add(v)
}
def value():MyComplex = {
return myc
}
def isZero(): Boolean = {
return (myc.x == 0 && myc.y == 0)
}
def copy():AccumulatorV2[MyComplex, MyComplex] = {
return ComplexAccumulatorV2
}
def merge(other:AccumulatorV2[MyComplex, MyComplex]) = {
myc.add(other.value)
}
}
sc.register(ComplexAccumulatorV2, "mycomplexacc")
https://gist.github.com/girisandeep/35b21cca890157afe0084a9e400e2e70

Broadcast Variables : Introduction
commonWords = ["a", "an", "the", "of", "at", "is",
"am", "are", "this", "that", '', 'at']
If we need to remove the common words from our
wordcount, what do we need to do?

commonWords = ["a", "an", "the", "of", "at", "is",
"am", "are", "this", "that", '', 'at']
> We can create a local variable and use it

commonWords = List("a", "an", "the", "of", "at",
"is", "am", "are", "this", "that", "", "at")
> We can create a local variable and use it
> Is it inefficient?

Yes, because
1. Spark sends referenced variables to all workers.
1. The default task launching mechanism is optimised for small task sizes.
2. If using multiple times, spark will be sending it again to all nodes
So, we use broadcast variable instead.

SHARED MEMORY
Broadcast
Variables
broadcast.value()
Broadcast()
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS
Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD)
Spark
Application
Spark
Application
Spark
Application
Spark
Application
Broadcast Variables
Cache

● Efficiently send a large, read-only value to workers
Broadcast Variables

● For example:
○ Send a large, read-only lookup table to all the nodes
Broadcast Variables

● For example:
○ Large feature vector in a machine learning algorithm
Broadcast Variables

● For example:
● It is like a distributed cache of Hadoop
● Spark distributes broadcast variables efficiently to reduce communication
cost.
Broadcast Variables

● For example:
● It is like a distributed cache of Hadoop
● Spark distributes broadcast variables efficiently to reduce communication
cost.
● Useful when
○ Tasks across multiple stages need the same data
○ Caching the data in deserialized form is important.
Broadcast Variables

Broadcast Variables : Example
Removing Common Words using Broadcast.
https://gist.github.com/girisandeep/f12ab4bf2536dc5f0a8ca673efbac1db

var commonWords = Array("a", "an", "the", "of", "at", "is", "am","are","this","that","at",
"in", "or", "and", "or", "not", "be", "for", "to", "it")

val commonWordsMap = collection.mutable.Map[String, Int]()
for(word <- commonWords){
commonWordsMap(word) = 1
}
var commonWordsBC = sc.broadcast(commonWordsMap)

}
var file = sc.textFile("/data/mr/wordcount/input/big.txt")

}
def toWords(line:String):Array[String] = {
var words = line.split(" ")
var output = Array[String]();
for(word <- words){
if(! (commonWordsBC.value contains word.toLowerCase.trim.replaceAll("[^a-z]","")))
output = output :+ word;
}
return output;
}
var uncommonWords = file.flatMap(toWords)

}
def toWords(line:String):Array[String] = {
var words = line.split(" ")
var output = Array[String]();
for(word <- words){
if(! (commonWordsBC.value contains word.toLowerCase.trim.replaceAll("[^a-z]","")))
output = output :+ word;
}
return output;
}
var uncommonWords = file.flatMap(toWords)
uncommonWords.take(100)

Key Performance Considerations
1. Level of Parallelism
2. Serialization Format
3. Memory Management
4. Hardware Provisioning

Level of Parallelism
By Default
● A single task per one partition,
● A single core in the cluster to execute.
● Default partitions are based on underlying storage or CPU
● HDFS RDDs - One partition per block

Too Less ⇒ Might leave resources idle
Too Much ⇒ Small overheads due to each partition adds up
By Default
● A single task per one partition,
● A single core in the cluster to execute.
● Default partitions are based on underlying storage or CPU
● HDFS RDDs - One partition per block

Key Performance Considerations
1. Level of Parallelism - How many default partitions?

Key Performance Considerations - Partitions
/data/msprojects/in_table.csv has 62 blocks theoratically. Lets check.
$ hadoop fs -ls /data/msprojects/in_table.csv
-rw-r--r-- 3 sandeep sandeep 8303338297 2017-04-18 02:26 /data/msprojects/in_table.csv
$ python
>>> 8303338297.0/128.0/1024.0/1024.0
61.86469120532274
>>>
$ hdfs fsck /data/msprojects/in_table.csv
…..
Total blocks (validated): 62 (avg. block size 133924811 B)
Yes, it has 62 blocks actually.

$ spark-shell --master yarn
scala> var myrdd = sc.textFile("/data/msprojects/in_table.csv")
scala> myrdd.partitions.length
res1: Int = 62
So, number of partitions is a function of number of data blocks in case
of sc.textFile.

// In the local mode
spark-shell
scala> var myrdd = sc.parallelize(1 to 100000)
res1: Int = 4
[sandeep@ip-172-31-60-179 ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor
processor : 0
processor : 1
processor : 2
processor : 3
Since my machine has 4 cores, it has created 4 partitions.

$ spark-shell --master yarn
scala> var myrdd = sc.parallelize(1 to 100000)
res6: Int = 2
When we are running in yarn mode, the number of partitions is function
of tasks that can be executed on a node, Here it is 2.

1. Specify number of partitions in sc.parallelize and sc.textFile
2. Shuffling operations accept degree of parallelism in parameter
3. repartition() or partitionBy
4. To efficiently shrink, prefer coalesce() over repartition()
How to control parallelism?

1. We are reading a large amount of data from S3.
2. filter() operation is likely to leave a tiny fraction
3. Result of filter() will have same size RDD as parent but with
many empty or small partitions.
4. Improve the application’s performance by coalescing
Example

Serialization Format
● While transferring or saving objects need serialization
● Comes into play during large transfers
● By default Spark will use Java’s built-in serializer.

Benchmarks
https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki

Kryo
● Spark also supports the use of Kryo
● Faster and more compact
● But cannot serialize all types of objects “out of the box.”
● Almost all applications will benefit from shifting to Kryo
● To use,
○ sc.getConf.set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
● For best performance, register classes with Kryo
○ sc.getConf.registerKryoClasses(Array(classOf[MyClass1], classOf[MyClass2]))
○ Class needs to implement Java’s Serializable interface

RDD storage
● persist()'ed memory
● spark.storage.memoryFraction - Default: 60%
● If exceeded, older will be dropped
○ will be computed on demand
● For huge data, use persist() with MEMORY_AND_DISK
Memory Management

RDD storage
Memory Management
Shuffle and aggregation buffers
● For storing shuffle output data
● spark.shuffle.memoryFraction - Default: 20%

RDD storage
Memory Management
Shuffle and aggregation buffers
● For storing shuffle output data
● spark.shuffle.memoryFraction - Default: 20%
User Code
Remaining
Default: 20% of memory

● Main Parameters
○ Executor’s Memory (spark.executor.memory)
○ Number of cores per Executor,
○ Total number of executors
○ No. of disks
Hardware Provisioning

● Main Parameters
○ No. of disks
● App Speed = (Impact of Memory + Cores)
○ Huge memory -> GC pauses
○ 64GB or less

● Main Parameters
○ No. of disks
● App Speed = (Impact of Memory + Cores)
○ Huge memory -> GC pauses
○ 64GB or less
● Linear scaling
○ 2 x Hardware == 2 x speed

Thank you!
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