The RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark provides a set of plugins for Apache Spark that leverage GPUs to accelerate Dataframe and SQL processing.

The accelerator is built upon the RAPIDS cuDF project and UCX.

RAPIDS Spark requires each worker node in the cluster to have an NVIDIA GPU and the NVIDIA driver installed.

RAPIDS Spark consists of the rapids-4-spark plugin jar. The jar is either preinstalled in the Spark classpath on all nodes or submitted with each job that uses the RAPIDS Spark. See the getting-started guide for more details.

Release v26.06.0

Hardware Requirements:

The plugin is designed to work on NVIDIA Volta, Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Hopper and Blackwell generation datacenter GPUs. The plugin jar is tested on the following GPUs:

GPU Models: NVIDIA V100, T4, A10, A100, L4, H100 and B100 GPUs

Software Requirements: 

OS: Spark RAPIDS is compatible with any Linux distribution with glibc >= 2.28 (Please check ldd --version output).  glibc 2.28 was released August 1, 2018. 
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Rocky Linux 8 and Rocky Linux 9

NVIDIA Driver*: R525+

Runtime: 
	Scala 2.12, 2.13
	Python, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) compatible with your spark-version. 

	* Check the Spark documentation for Python and Java version compatibility with your specific 
	Spark version. For instance, visit `https://spark.apache.org/docs/3.4.1` for Spark 3.4.1.

Supported Spark versions:
	Apache Spark 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4
	Apache Spark 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4
	Apache Spark 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.5.8
	Apache Spark 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
	Apache Spark 4.1.1
	Scala 2.12: Spark 3.3.0 through 3.5.8
	Scala 2.13: Spark 3.5.0 through 3.5.8, and Spark 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.1.1

Supported Databricks runtime versions for Azure and AWS:
	Databricks 13.3 ML LTS (GPU, Scala 2.12, Spark 3.4.1)
	Databricks 14.3 ML LTS (GPU, Scala 2.12, Spark 3.5.0)
	Databricks 17.3 ML LTS (GPU, Scala 2.13, Spark 4.0.0)

Supported Dataproc versions (Debian/Ubuntu/Rocky):
	GCP Dataproc 2.1
	GCP Dataproc 2.2
	GCP Dataproc 2.3

Supported Dataproc Serverless versions:
	Spark runtime 1.2 LTS
	Spark runtime 2.2 LTS
	Spark runtime 2.3 LTS
	Spark runtime 3.0

*Some hardware may have a minimum driver version greater than R470. Check the GPU spec sheet for your hardware’s minimum driver version.

*For EMR support, please refer to the Distributions section of the FAQ.

RAPIDS Accelerator’s Support Policy for Apache Spark

The RAPIDS Accelerator maintains support for Apache Spark versions available for download from Apache Spark

Download RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark v26.06.0

CUDA 12

Processor Scala Version Download Jar Download Signature Download From Maven
x86_64 Scala 2.12 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.12</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
</dependency></pre>
x86_64 Scala 2.13 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.13</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
</dependency></pre>
arm64 Scala 2.12 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.12</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda12-arm64</classifier>
</dependency></pre>
arm64 Scala 2.13 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.13</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda12-arm64</classifier>
</dependency></pre>

CUDA 13

Processor Scala Version Download Jar Download Signature Download From Maven
x86_64 Scala 2.12 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.12</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda13</classifier>
</dependency></pre>
x86_64 Scala 2.13 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.13</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda13</classifier>
</dependency></pre>
arm64 Scala 2.12 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.12</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda13-arm64</classifier>
</dependency></pre>
arm64 Scala 2.13 RAPIDS Accelerator v26.06.0 Signature <pre><dependency>
<groupId>com.nvidia</groupId>
<artifactId>rapids-4-spark_2.13</artifactId>
<version>26.06.0</version>
<classifier>cuda13-arm64</classifier>
</dependency></pre>

The above packages are built against CUDA 12.9 or CUDA 13.1. They are tested on V100, T4, A10, A100, L4, H100 and GB100 GPUs.

Verify signature

  • Download the PUB_KEY.
  • Import the public key: gpg --import PUB_KEY
  • Verify the signature for Scala 2.12 jar: gpg --verify rapids-4-spark_2.12-26.06.0.jar.asc rapids-4-spark_2.12-26.06.0.jar
  • Verify the signature for Scala 2.13 jar: gpg --verify rapids-4-spark_2.13-26.06.0.jar.asc rapids-4-spark_2.13-26.06.0.jar

The output of signature verify:

gpg: Good signature from "NVIDIA Spark (For the signature of spark-rapids release jars) <sw-spark@nvidia.com>"

Release Notes

v26.06.0 includes the following updates:

  • Databricks 17.3 ML LTS Delta Lake support now includes native deletion vector reads, Delta writes, DELETE, UPDATE, MERGE, OPTIMIZE, and auto compaction on GPU (#14787, #14716, #14810, #14820, #14847)
  • Iceberg support adds nested and binary GPU writes, read-path optimizations, per-table scan-option overrides, and fixes for newly-added nested MAP/LIST fields (#14611, #14674, #14754, #14880)
  • Added GPU support for array aggregate SUM, PRODUCT, MAX, MIN, ALL, and ANY, plus additional string expression support for replace(col, targetExpr, replExpr) and GBK StringDecode (#14652, #14623, #14545)
  • Improved expression performance for timestamp parsing, complex type casts, null handling, hypot, format_number, regex extract, and substring operations (#14706, #14842, #14817, #14818, #14830, #14586, #14647, #14819)
  • Improved retry and resource handling for GPU project execution, row-to-column transitions, asynchronous cloud output writes, and host column extraction (#14724, #14865, #14759)
  • Fixed several query correctness and compatibility issues, including join conditions with casts, non-deterministic expression preservation, JSON/CSV path decoding, and row transitions for final AQE exchanges (#14793, #14792, #14778, #14914)

For a detailed list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG.

Archived releases

As new releases come out, previous ones will still be available in archived releases.

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