Databricks Runtime 6.3 for ML (unsupported)

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Databricks released this image in January 2020.

Databricks Runtime 6.3 for Machine Learning provides a ready-to-go environment for machine learning and data science based on Databricks Runtime 6.3 (unsupported). Databricks Runtime ML contains many popular machine learning libraries, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and XGBoost. It also supports distributed deep learning training using Horovod.

For more information, including instructions for creating a Databricks Runtime ML cluster, see AI and Machine Learning on Databricks.

New features

Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML is built on top of Databricks Runtime 6.3. For information on what’s new in Databricks Runtime 6.3, see the Databricks Runtime 6.3 (unsupported) release notes.

Improvements

Upgraded machine learning libraries

  • PyTorch: 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
  • torchvision: 0.4.1 to 0.4.2 - includes an optimized video reader backend
  • MLflow: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0
    • Includes support for LightGBM, XGBoost, and Gluon flavors.
    • Fixed a bug where MLflow projects could not be executed against Databricks Runtime ML clusters.
    • For more details, see the MLflow 1.5.0 release.
  • Hyperopt: 0.2.1 to 0.2.2 - Updates include:

    • Fixed a bug in ATPE (Adaptiv-TPE), where the algorithm did not work properly with hp.choice and hp.randint.

    • Fixed some bugs in using tqdm, a Python module for reporting progress. For example, the progress bar was sometimes incorrect when executing parallel fmin().

    • Now warns about Spark task retries for long running trials. When retries are enabled and trial runs are making slow progress, this message will be printed:

      SparkTrials found that the Spark conf 'spark.task.maxFailures' is set to 4, which will make trials re-run automatically if they fail.
If failures can occur from bad hyperparameter settings, or if trials are very long-running, then retries may not be a good idea.
Consider setting spark.conf.set('spark.task.maxFailures', '1') to prevent retries.

    • Other small fixes. For details, see the Hyperopt 0.2.2 release.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue that caused some missing cluster metrics, which happens frequently on GPU clusters with multi-GPU nodes.

System environment

The system environment in Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML differs from Databricks Runtime 6.3 as follows:

Libraries

The following sections list the libraries included in Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML that differ from those included in Databricks Runtime 6.3.

In this section:

Top-tier libraries

Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML includes the following top-tier libraries:

Python libraries

Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML uses Conda for Python package management and includes many popular ML packages. The following section describes the Conda environment for Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML.

Python on CPU clusters

name: databricks-ml
channels:
  - Databricks
  - pytorch
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - _libgcc_mutex=0.1=main
  - _py-xgboost-mutex=2.0=cpu_0
  - _tflow_select=2.3.0=mkl
  - absl-py=0.8.1=py37_0
  - asn1crypto=0.24.0=py37_0
  - astor=0.8.0=py37_0
  - backcall=0.1.0=py37_0
  - backports=1.0=py_2
  - bcrypt=3.1.7=py37h7b6447c_0
  - blas=1.0=mkl
  - boto=2.49.0=py37_0
  - boto3=1.9.162=py_0
  - botocore=1.12.163=py_0
  - c-ares=1.15.0=h7b6447c_1001
  - ca-certificates=2019.1.23=0
  - certifi=2019.3.9=py37_0
  - cffi=1.12.2=py37h2e261b9_1
  - chardet=3.0.4=py37_1003
  - click=7.0=py_0
  - cloudpickle=0.8.0=py37_0
  - colorama=0.4.1=py_0
  - configparser=3.7.4=py37_0
  - cpuonly=1.0=0
  - cryptography=2.6.1=py37h1ba5d50_0
  - cycler=0.10.0=py37_0
  - cython=0.29.6=py37he6710b0_0
  - decorator=4.4.0=py37_1
  - docutils=0.14=py37_0
  - entrypoints=0.3=py37_0
  - et_xmlfile=1.0.1=py37_0
  - flask=1.0.2=py37_1
  - freetype=2.9.1=h8a8886c_1
  - future=0.17.1=py37_0
  - gast=0.2.2=py37_0
  - gitdb2=2.0.6=py_0
  - gitpython=2.1.11=py37_0
  - google-pasta=0.1.8=py_0
  - grpcio=1.16.1=py37hf8bcb03_1
  - gunicorn=19.9.0=py37_0
  - h5py=2.9.0=py37h7918eee_0
  - hdf5=1.10.4=hb1b8bf9_0
  - html5lib=1.0.1=py_0
  - icu=58.2=h9c2bf20_1
  - idna=2.8=py37_0
  - intel-openmp=2019.3=199
  - ipykernel=5.1.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - ipython=7.4.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - ipython_genutils=0.2.0=py37_0
  - itsdangerous=1.1.0=py_0
  - jdcal=1.4=py37_0
  - jedi=0.13.3=py37_0
  - jinja2=2.10=py37_0
  - jmespath=0.9.4=py_0
  - jpeg=9b=h024ee3a_2
  - jupyter_client=5.2.4=py37_0
  - jupyter_core=4.4.0=py37_0
  - keras-applications=1.0.8=py_0
  - keras-preprocessing=1.1.0=py_1
  - kiwisolver=1.0.1=py37hf484d3e_0
  - krb5=1.16.1=h173b8e3_7
  - libedit=3.1.20181209=hc058e9b_0
  - libffi=3.2.1=hd88cf55_4
  - libgcc-ng=8.2.0=hdf63c60_1
  - libgfortran-ng=7.3.0=hdf63c60_0
  - libpng=1.6.36=hbc83047_0
  - libpq=11.2=h20c2e04_0
  - libprotobuf=3.11.2=hd408876_0
  - libsodium=1.0.16=h1bed415_0
  - libstdcxx-ng=8.2.0=hdf63c60_1
  - libtiff=4.0.10=h2733197_2
  - libxgboost=0.90=he6710b0_1
  - libxml2=2.9.9=hea5a465_1
  - libxslt=1.1.33=h7d1a2b0_0
  - llvmlite=0.28.0=py37hd408876_0
  - lxml=4.3.2=py37hefd8a0e_0
  - mako=1.0.10=py_0
  - markdown=3.1.1=py37_0
  - markupsafe=1.1.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - mkl=2019.3=199
  - mkl_fft=1.0.10=py37ha843d7b_0
  - mkl_random=1.0.2=py37hd81dba3_0
  - ncurses=6.1=he6710b0_1
  - networkx=2.2=py37_1
  - ninja=1.9.0=py37hfd86e86_0
  - nose=1.3.7=py37_2
  - numba=0.43.1=py37h962f231_0
  - numpy=1.16.2=py37h7e9f1db_0
  - numpy-base=1.16.2=py37hde5b4d6_0
  - olefile=0.46=py_0
  - openpyxl=2.6.1=py37_1
  - openssl=1.1.1b=h7b6447c_1
  - opt_einsum=3.1.0=py_0
  - pandas=0.24.2=py37he6710b0_0
  - paramiko=2.4.2=py37_0
  - parso=0.3.4=py37_0
  - pathlib2=2.3.3=py37_0
  - patsy=0.5.1=py37_0
  - pexpect=4.6.0=py37_0
  - pickleshare=0.7.5=py37_0
  - pillow=5.4.1=py37h34e0f95_0
  - pip=19.0.3=py37_0
  - ply=3.11=py37_0
  - prompt_toolkit=2.0.9=py37_0
  - protobuf=3.11.2=py37he6710b0_0
  - psutil=5.6.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - psycopg2=2.7.6.1=py37h1ba5d50_0
  - ptyprocess=0.6.0=py37_0
  - py-xgboost=0.90=py37he6710b0_1
  - py-xgboost-cpu=0.90=py37_1
  - pyasn1=0.4.8=py_0
  - pycparser=2.19=py_0
  - pygments=2.3.1=py37_0
  - pymongo=3.8.0=py37he6710b0_1
  - pynacl=1.3.0=py37h7b6447c_0
  - pyopenssl=19.0.0=py37_0
  - pyparsing=2.3.1=py37_0
  - pysocks=1.6.8=py37_0
  - python=3.7.3=h0371630_0
  - python-dateutil=2.8.0=py37_0
  - python-editor=1.0.4=py_0
  - pytorch=1.3.1=py3.7_cpu_0
  - pytz=2018.9=py37_0
  - pyyaml=5.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - pyzmq=18.0.0=py37he6710b0_0
  - readline=7.0=h7b6447c_5
  - requests=2.21.0=py37_0
  - s3transfer=0.2.1=py37_0
  - scikit-learn=0.20.3=py37hd81dba3_0
  - scipy=1.2.1=py37h7c811a0_0
  - setuptools=40.8.0=py37_0
  - simplejson=3.16.0=py37h14c3975_0
  - singledispatch=3.4.0.3=py37_0
  - six=1.12.0=py37_0
  - smmap2=2.0.5=py_0
  - sqlite=3.27.2=h7b6447c_0
  - sqlparse=0.3.0=py_0
  - statsmodels=0.9.0=py37h035aef0_0
  - tabulate=0.8.3=py37_0
  - tensorboard=1.15.0+db2=pyhb230dea_0
  - tensorflow=1.15.0+db2=mkl_py37hc5fbf04_0
  - tensorflow-base=1.15.0+db2=mkl_py37h2ae1e84_0
  - tensorflow-estimator=1.15.1+db2=pyh2649769_0
  - tensorflow-mkl=1.15.0+db2=h4fcabd2_0
  - termcolor=1.1.0=py37_1
  - tk=8.6.8=hbc83047_0
  - torchvision=0.4.2=py37_cpu
  - tornado=6.0.2=py37h7b6447c_0
  - tqdm=4.31.1=py37_1
  - traitlets=4.3.2=py37_0
  - urllib3=1.24.1=py37_0
  - virtualenv=16.0.0=py37_0
  - wcwidth=0.1.7=py37_0
  - webencodings=0.5.1=py37_1
  - websocket-client=0.56.0=py37_0
  - werkzeug=0.14.1=py37_0
  - wheel=0.33.1=py37_0
  - wrapt=1.11.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - xz=5.2.4=h14c3975_4
  - yaml=0.1.7=had09818_2
  - zeromq=4.3.1=he6710b0_3
  - zlib=1.2.11=h7b6447c_3
  - zstd=1.3.7=h0b5b093_0
  - pip:
    - argparse==1.4.0
    - databricks-cli==0.9.1
    - deprecated==1.2.7
    - docker==4.1.0
    - fusepy==2.0.4
    - gorilla==0.3.0
    - horovod==0.18.2
    - hyperopt==0.2.2.db1
    - keras==2.2.5
    - matplotlib==3.0.3
    - mleap==0.8.1
    - mlflow==1.5.0
    - nose-exclude==0.5.0
    - pyarrow==0.13.0
    - querystring-parser==1.2.4
    - seaborn==0.9.0
    - tensorboardx==1.9
prefix: /databricks/conda/envs/databricks-ml

Python on GPU clusters

name: databricks-ml-gpu
channels:
  - Databricks
  - pytorch
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - _libgcc_mutex=0.1=main
  - _py-xgboost-mutex=1.0=gpu_0
  - _tflow_select=2.1.0=gpu
  - absl-py=0.8.1=py37_0
  - asn1crypto=0.24.0=py37_0
  - astor=0.8.0=py37_0
  - backcall=0.1.0=py37_0
  - backports=1.0=py_2
  - bcrypt=3.1.7=py37h7b6447c_0
  - blas=1.0=mkl
  - boto=2.49.0=py37_0
  - boto3=1.9.162=py_0
  - botocore=1.12.163=py_0
  - c-ares=1.15.0=h7b6447c_1001
  - ca-certificates=2019.1.23=0
  - certifi=2019.3.9=py37_0
  - cffi=1.12.2=py37h2e261b9_1
  - chardet=3.0.4=py37_1003
  - click=7.0=py_0
  - cloudpickle=0.8.0=py37_0
  - colorama=0.4.1=py_0
  - configparser=3.7.4=py37_0
  - cryptography=2.6.1=py37h1ba5d50_0
  - cudatoolkit=10.0.130=0
  - cudnn=7.6.4=cuda10.0_0
  - cupti=10.0.130=0
  - cycler=0.10.0=py37_0
  - cython=0.29.6=py37he6710b0_0
  - decorator=4.4.0=py37_1
  - docutils=0.14=py37_0
  - entrypoints=0.3=py37_0
  - et_xmlfile=1.0.1=py37_0
  - flask=1.0.2=py37_1
  - freetype=2.9.1=h8a8886c_1
  - future=0.17.1=py37_0
  - gast=0.2.2=py37_0
  - gitdb2=2.0.6=py_0
  - gitpython=2.1.11=py37_0
  - google-pasta=0.1.8=py_0
  - grpcio=1.16.1=py37hf8bcb03_1
  - gunicorn=19.9.0=py37_0
  - h5py=2.9.0=py37h7918eee_0
  - hdf5=1.10.4=hb1b8bf9_0
  - html5lib=1.0.1=py_0
  - icu=58.2=h9c2bf20_1
  - idna=2.8=py37_0
  - intel-openmp=2019.3=199
  - ipykernel=5.1.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - ipython=7.4.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - ipython_genutils=0.2.0=py37_0
  - itsdangerous=1.1.0=py_0
  - jdcal=1.4=py37_0
  - jedi=0.13.3=py37_0
  - jinja2=2.10=py37_0
  - jmespath=0.9.4=py_0
  - jpeg=9b=h024ee3a_2
  - jupyter_client=5.2.4=py37_0
  - jupyter_core=4.4.0=py37_0
  - keras-applications=1.0.8=py_0
  - keras-preprocessing=1.1.0=py_1
  - kiwisolver=1.0.1=py37hf484d3e_0
  - krb5=1.16.1=h173b8e3_7
  - libedit=3.1.20181209=hc058e9b_0
  - libffi=3.2.1=hd88cf55_4
  - libgcc-ng=8.2.0=hdf63c60_1
  - libgfortran-ng=7.3.0=hdf63c60_0
  - libpng=1.6.36=hbc83047_0
  - libpq=11.2=h20c2e04_0
  - libprotobuf=3.11.2=hd408876_0
  - libsodium=1.0.16=h1bed415_0
  - libstdcxx-ng=8.2.0=hdf63c60_1
  - libtiff=4.0.10=h2733197_2
  - libxgboost=0.90=h688424c_0
  - libxml2=2.9.9=hea5a465_1
  - libxslt=1.1.33=h7d1a2b0_0
  - llvmlite=0.28.0=py37hd408876_0
  - lxml=4.3.2=py37hefd8a0e_0
  - mako=1.0.10=py_0
  - markdown=3.1.1=py37_0
  - markupsafe=1.1.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - mkl=2019.3=199
  - mkl_fft=1.0.10=py37ha843d7b_0
  - mkl_random=1.0.2=py37hd81dba3_0
  - ncurses=6.1=he6710b0_1
  - networkx=2.2=py37_1
  - ninja=1.9.0=py37hfd86e86_0
  - nose=1.3.7=py37_2
  - numba=0.43.1=py37h962f231_0
  - numpy=1.16.2=py37h7e9f1db_0
  - numpy-base=1.16.2=py37hde5b4d6_0
  - olefile=0.46=py_0
  - openpyxl=2.6.1=py37_1
  - openssl=1.1.1b=h7b6447c_1
  - opt_einsum=3.1.0=py_0
  - pandas=0.24.2=py37he6710b0_0
  - paramiko=2.4.2=py37_0
  - parso=0.3.4=py37_0
  - pathlib2=2.3.3=py37_0
  - patsy=0.5.1=py37_0
  - pexpect=4.6.0=py37_0
  - pickleshare=0.7.5=py37_0
  - pillow=5.4.1=py37h34e0f95_0
  - pip=19.0.3=py37_0
  - ply=3.11=py37_0
  - prompt_toolkit=2.0.9=py37_0
  - protobuf=3.11.2=py37he6710b0_0
  - psutil=5.6.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - psycopg2=2.7.6.1=py37h1ba5d50_0
  - ptyprocess=0.6.0=py37_0
  - py-xgboost=0.90=py37h688424c_0
  - py-xgboost-gpu=0.90=py37h28bbb66_0
  - pyasn1=0.4.8=py_0
  - pycparser=2.19=py_0
  - pygments=2.3.1=py37_0
  - pymongo=3.8.0=py37he6710b0_1
  - pynacl=1.3.0=py37h7b6447c_0
  - pyopenssl=19.0.0=py37_0
  - pyparsing=2.3.1=py37_0
  - pysocks=1.6.8=py37_0
  - python=3.7.3=h0371630_0
  - python-dateutil=2.8.0=py37_0
  - python-editor=1.0.4=py_0
  - pytorch=1.3.1=py3.7_cuda10.0.130_cudnn7.6.3_0
  - pytz=2018.9=py37_0
  - pyyaml=5.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - pyzmq=18.0.0=py37he6710b0_0
  - readline=7.0=h7b6447c_5
  - requests=2.21.0=py37_0
  - s3transfer=0.2.1=py37_0
  - scikit-learn=0.20.3=py37hd81dba3_0
  - scipy=1.2.1=py37h7c811a0_0
  - setuptools=40.8.0=py37_0
  - simplejson=3.16.0=py37h14c3975_0
  - singledispatch=3.4.0.3=py37_0
  - six=1.12.0=py37_0
  - smmap2=2.0.5=py_0
  - sqlite=3.27.2=h7b6447c_0
  - sqlparse=0.3.0=py_0
  - statsmodels=0.9.0=py37h035aef0_0
  - tabulate=0.8.3=py37_0
  - tensorboard=1.15.0+db2=pyhb230dea_0
  - tensorflow=1.15.0+db2=gpu_py37h9fd0ff8_0
  - tensorflow-base=1.15.0+db2=gpu_py37hd56f5dd_0
  - tensorflow-estimator=1.15.1+db2=pyh2649769_0
  - tensorflow-gpu=1.15.0+db2=h0d30ee6_0
  - termcolor=1.1.0=py37_1
  - tk=8.6.8=hbc83047_0
  - torchvision=0.4.2=py37_cu100
  - tornado=6.0.2=py37h7b6447c_0
  - tqdm=4.31.1=py37_1
  - traitlets=4.3.2=py37_0
  - urllib3=1.24.1=py37_0
  - virtualenv=16.0.0=py37_0
  - wcwidth=0.1.7=py37_0
  - webencodings=0.5.1=py37_1
  - websocket-client=0.56.0=py37_0
  - werkzeug=0.14.1=py37_0
  - wheel=0.33.1=py37_0
  - wrapt=1.11.1=py37h7b6447c_0
  - xz=5.2.4=h14c3975_4
  - yaml=0.1.7=had09818_2
  - zeromq=4.3.1=he6710b0_3
  - zlib=1.2.11=h7b6447c_3
  - zstd=1.3.7=h0b5b093_0
  - pip:
    - argparse==1.4.0
    - databricks-cli==0.9.1
    - deprecated==1.2.7
    - docker==4.1.0
    - fusepy==2.0.4
    - gorilla==0.3.0
    - horovod==0.18.2
    - hyperopt==0.2.2.db1
    - keras==2.2.5
    - matplotlib==3.0.3
    - mleap==0.8.1
    - mlflow==1.5.0
    - nose-exclude==0.5.0
    - pyarrow==0.13.0
    - querystring-parser==1.2.4
    - seaborn==0.9.0
    - tensorboardx==1.9
prefix: /databricks/conda/envs/databricks-ml-gpu

Spark packages containing Python modules

Spark Package Python Module Version
graphframes graphframes 0.7.0-db1-spark2.4
spark-deep-learning sparkdl 1.5.0-db12-spark2.4
tensorframes tensorframes 0.8.2-s_2.11

R libraries

The R libraries are identical to the R Libraries in Databricks Runtime 6.3.

Java and Scala libraries (Scala 2.11 cluster)

In addition to Java and Scala libraries in Databricks Runtime 6.3, Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML contains the following JARs:

Group ID Artifact ID Version
com.databricks spark-deep-learning 1.5.0-db12-spark2.4
com.typesafe.akka akka-actor_2.11 2.3.11
ml.combust.mleap mleap-databricks-runtime_2.11 0.15.0
ml.dmlc xgboost4j 0.90
ml.dmlc xgboost4j-spark 0.90
org.graphframes graphframes_2.11 0.7.0-db1-spark2.4
org.mlflow mlflow-client 1.4.0
org.tensorflow libtensorflow 1.15.0
org.tensorflow libtensorflow_jni 1.15.0
org.tensorflow spark-tensorflow-connector_2.11 1.15.0
org.tensorflow tensorflow 1.15.0
org.tensorframes tensorframes 0.8.2-s_2.11