Accelerated Spark on Azure - Seamless and Scalable Hardware Offloads (Yuval Degani)

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Channel: Databricks · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Yuval Degani is a Senior Manager of Engineering in Mellanox Technologies, leading a team of Software Engineers based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how hardware accelerations in Azure can be utilized to speed-up Spark jobs seamlessly, with the aid of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) support in the VM. We will demonstrate use cases of benchmarks and real-world applications, that achieve impressive performance improvements with minimal configuration.

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