Databricks Runtime 6.3 for ML (EoS)

Article
09/30/2024

Note

Support for this Databricks Runtime version has ended. For the end-of-support date, see End-of-support history. For all supported Databricks Runtime versions, see Databricks Runtime release notes versions and compatibility.

Databricks released this version 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 (EoS). 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 (EoS) 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:

DBUtils: Does not contain Library utility (dbutils.library) (legacy).
For GPU clusters, the following NVIDIA GPU libraries:
- CUDA 10.0
- cuDNN 7.6.4
- NCCL 2.4.8

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
Python libraries
R libraries
Java and Scala libraries (Scala 2.11 cluster)

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
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