Hi, >From the documentation it is not very clear how exactly the remote interpreter works.
Here is what I tried. But it didn't work. I am using zeppelin 0.6.1 binary and spark 2.0. 1. In a remote spark cluster a) I created a spark interpreter (copying from the default spark interpreter) with master as Yarn-Client b). I started the same in a notebook (ensuring that this interpreter is enabled) using following code - import org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.remote.RemoteInterpreterServer val interpreter = new RemoteInterpreterServer(51000) interpreter.start() c). When I go to the yarn application manager I can see this new interpreter is running. Also the log file shows that the remote interpreter has started in 51000 port 2. Next in a client machine (a mac laptop) I started Zeppelin. a) I created a new Spark interpreter copying from existing one. There I enabled the checkbox - Connect to Existing Process and provided host ip and port. b) I have kept the master as local c) Now I selected this interpreter for Zeppelin Tutorial notebook and ran the same. d) The first paragraph with spark interpreter (Load Data in Table) worked fine. Also I saw the log in the server shows that it is successfully parsing the bank table. e) But the next paragraph (%sql select age, count(1) value from bank where age < 30 group by age order by age) gives error as follwos - Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: cannot assign instance of scala.collection.immutable.List$SerializationProxy to field org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.org$apache$spark$rdd$RDD$$dependencies_ of type scala.collection.Seq in instance of org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$FieldReflector.setObjFieldValues(ObjectStreamClass.java:2089) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.setObjFieldValues(ObjectStreamClass.java:1261) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1999) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1993) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:371) at scala.collection.immutable.List$SerializationProxy.readObject(List.scala:479) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1017) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1896) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1993) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1993) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:371) at scala.collection.immutable.List$SerializationProxy.readObject(List.scala:479) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1017) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1896) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1993) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1993) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351) Any idea where am I going wrong ? Regards, Sourav