Parallelize / avoid foreach loop in spark
<p>I wrote a class that gets a DataFrame, does some calculations on it and can export the results. The Dataframes are generated by a List of Keys. I know that i am doing this in a very unefficient way right now:</p>

<pre><code>var l = List(34, 32, 132, 352)      // Scala List

l.foreach{i =&gt; 
    val data:DataFrame = DataContainer.getDataFrame(i) // get DataFrame
    val x = new MyClass(data)                     // initialize MyClass with new Object
    x.setSettings(...)
    x.calcSomething()
    x.saveResults()                               // writes the Results into another Dataframe that is saved to HDFS
}
</code></pre>

<p>I think the foreach on the Scala list is not parallel, so how can i avoid using foreach here? The calculation the DataFrames could happen in parallel, as results of the calculations are NOT input for the next DataFrame - how can i implement this?</p>

<p>Thank you so much!! </p>

<p>__edit:</p>

<p>what i tried to do:</p>

<pre><code>val l = List(34, 32, 132, 352)      // Scala List
var l_DF:List[DataFrame] = List()
l.foreach{ i =&gt;
    DataContainer.getDataFrame(i)::l        //append DataFrame to List of Dataframes
}

val rdd:DataFrame = sc.parallelize(l)
rdd.foreach(data =&gt;
    val x = new MyClass(data)
)
</code></pre>

<p>but gives</p>

<pre><code>Invalid tree; null:
null
</code></pre>

<p>edit 2:
Okay, i don´t get how evrything works under the hood....</p>

<p>1) Everything works fine when i execute this in spark-shell</p>

<pre><code>spark-shell –driver-memory 10g       
//...
var l = List(34, 32, 132, 352)      // Scala List

l.foreach{i =&gt; 
    val data:DataFrame = AllData.where($"a" === i) // get DataFrame
    val x = new MyClass(data)                     // initialize MyClass     with new Object
    x.calcSomething()
}
</code></pre>

<p>2) Error, when i start the same with</p>

<pre><code>spark-shell --master yarn-client --num-executors 10 –driver-memory 10g  
// same code as above
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable@7b600fed rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@1431127[Terminated, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 1263]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:2047)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:823)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1369)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.ExecutionContextImpl$$anon$1.execute(ExecutionContextImpl.scala:133)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.executeWithValue(Promise.scala:40)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.tryComplete(Promise.scala:248)
    at scala.concurrent.Promise$class.complete(Promise.scala:55)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.complete(Promise.scala:153)
    at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$recover$1.apply(Future.scala:324)
    at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$recover$1.apply(Future.scala:324)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.run(Promise.scala:32)
    at org.spark-project.guava.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors$SameThreadExecutorService.execute(MoreExecutors.java:293)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.ExecutionContextImpl$$anon$1.execute(ExecutionContextImpl.scala:133)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.executeWithValue(Promise.scala:40)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.tryComplete(Promise.scala:248)
    at scala.concurrent.Promise$class.complete(Promise.scala:55)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.complete(Promise.scala:153)
    at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$map$1.apply(Future.scala:235)
    at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$map$1.apply(Future.scala:235)
    at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.run(Promise.scala:32)
</code></pre>

<p>3) when i try to parallelize it, i get a error, too</p>

<pre><code>spark-shell --master yarn-client --num-executors 10 –driver-memory 10g
//...
var l = List(34, 32, 132, 352).par
// same code as above, just parallelized before calling foreach
// i can see the parallel execution by the console messages (my class gives some and they are printed out parallel now instead of sequentielly

scala.collection.parallel.CompositeThrowable: Multiple exceptions thrown during a parallel computation: java.lang.IllegalStateException: SparkContext has been shutdown
org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1816)
org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1837)
org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1850)
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.executeTake(SparkPlan.scala:215)
    org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Limit.executeCollect(basicOperators.scala:207)
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$collect$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1385)
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$collect$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1385)
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:56)
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.withNewExecutionId(DataFrame.scala:1903)
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.collect(DataFrame.scala:1384)
.
.
.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot call methods on a stopped SparkContext                  org.apache.spark.SparkContext.org$apache$spark$SparkContext$$assertNotStopped(SparkContext.scala:104)
 org.apache.spark.SparkContext.broadcast(SparkContext.scala:1320)
   org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSourceStrategy$.apply(DataSourceStrategy.scala:104)
org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371)
org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner.plan(QueryPlanner.scala:59)
org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner.planLater(QueryPlanner.scala:54)
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkStrategies$EquiJoinSelection$.makeBroadcastHashJoin(SparkStrategies.scala:92)
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkStrategies$EquiJoinSelection$.apply(SparkStrategies.scala:104)
</code></pre>

<p>There are actually more than 10 executors, but 4 nodes. I never configure the spark-context. It´s already given on startup.</p>