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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring PySpark installation with deep learning packages


There are some additional configurations that need to be done within PySpark to implement deep learning packages from Databricks called spark-deep-learning. These are configurations that were made all the way back in chapter 1, Setting up your Spark Environment for Deep Learning.

Getting ready

This configuration requires making changes in the terminal, using bash.

How to do it...

The following section walks through the steps to configure PySpark with deep learning packages:

  1. Open the terminal application and type in the following command:
nano .bashrc.
  1. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the document and look for the sparknotebook() function we created back in chapter 1, Setting up your Spark Environment for Deep Learning.
  1. Update the last row of the function. It should currently look like the following:
$SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark.

Change it to the following:

$SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark --packages databricks:spark-deep-learning:0.1.0-spark2.1-s_2...