Access the NVIDIA AI Enterprise RAPIDS Accelerator
The RAPIDS Accelerator is distributed through the NGC Enterprise Catalog and can be pulled directly via a browser. Manual upload of the Accelerator is required for Dataproc and Databricks deployments to ensure the correct version of the accelerator is used. EMR maintains a separate version. To access the RAPIDS Accelerator, navigate and log into NGC and access the Enterprise Catalog.
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Navigate to the NVIDIA AI Enterprise 3.1 or later collection and select entities followed by the RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark.
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Under Version History Select the available version and the associated ellipsis to directly download the jar file.
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The saved jar file will be uploaded to either a GCP bucket for Dataproc deployments or a Databricks File System (dbfs) folder for Databricks deployments.