XGBoost-EMR-Build-Recipe

This recipe will instruct how to use XGboost library on Apache Spark on AWS ElasticMapReduce 5.10

Install Dependencies

First, ssh into an EMR EC2 instance, then

Install cmake

Do not install cmake from yum, as the version from yum repository is out of date (2.8 as opposed to 3.3+). Instead, build from source:

wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.10/cmake-3.10.0.tar.gz
tar xzf cmake-3.10.0.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.10.0
./bootstrap --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Install maven

wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
sed -i s/\$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
sudo yum install -y apache-maven
mvn --version

Install git

sudo yum -y install git

Build XGBoost

Build the native library

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost
make -j4

Build XGBoost for Java (with JNI)

Add enviroment variable for JAVA_HOME

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64

Build the source from maven

cd jvm-packages
mvn package -DskipTests

(Optional) Upload the newly-built jars to S3

After the previous steps, there should be 8 jars built. Use command to list all of them,

find . -name "*.jar"

You will need xgboost4j-0.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar and xgboost4j-spark-0.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar. Upload to S3 with command aws s3 cp

Use XGBoost in an SBT project

First, copy the 2 jars into *project*/lib Then add the following lines to build.sbt file

val xgboostSparkPath = "file://" + new File(".").getAbsolutePath + "/lib/xgboost4j-spark-0.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar"
val xgboostPath = "file://" + new File(".").getAbsolutePath + "/lib/xgboost4j-0.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar"
retrieveManaged := true
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j" % "0.7"  % "provided" from xgboostPath,
  "ml.dmlc" % "xgboost4j-spark" % "0.7"  % "provided" from xgboostSparkPath
)

After successfully executing all the previous steps, you can use XGBoost on an EMR Spark cluster.

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