Setting Up Spark for Deep Learning Development

In this chapter, the following recipes will be covered:

• Downloading an Ubuntu Desktop image
• Installing and configuring Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion on macOS
• Installing and configuring Ubuntu with Oracle VirtualBox on Windows
• Installing and configuring Ubuntu Desktop for Google Cloud Platform
• Installing and configuring Spark and prerequisites on Ubuntu Desktop
• Integrating Jupyter notebooks with Spark
• Starting and configuring a Spark cluster
• Stopping a Spark cluster