Hi Andrew & AE, Thanks! Python kernel seems to be working well but the R kernel keeps dying.
Looking forward to trying out pyhive! - Mikhail On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > *tl;dr stop using notebook1001 by Monday April 2nd, use notebook1003 > instead.* > > *(If you don’t have production access, you can ignore this email.)* > > As part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183145, we’ve ordered new > hardware to replace the aging notebook1001. The new servers are ready to > go, so we need to schedule a deprecation timeline for notebook1001. That > timeline is Monday April 2nd. After that, your work on notebook1001 will > not longer be accessible. Instead you should use notebook1003 (or > notebook1004). > > But there is good news too! Last week I rsynced everyone’s home > directories from notebook1001 over to notebook1003. I also upgraded the > default virtualenv your notebooks run from. Your notebook files should all > be accessible on notebook1003. However, the version of Python3 changed > from 3.4 to 3.5 during this upgrade. Dependencies that your notebook uses > that you installed on notebook1001 may not be available at first. You > might need to redo a pip install those dependencies into the new notebook > Python 3.5 virtualenv. (I can’t really give you explicit instructions to > do that, as I don’t know what you use for your notebooks.) > > I’ll do a final rsync any newer files in home directories from > notebook1001 on Monday April 2nd. If you’ve been working on notebook1001 > since after March 15th, this should get everything up to date on > notebook1003 before notebook1001 goes away. BUT! *Do not work on both > notebook1001 and notebook1003*! My final rsync will keep the most > recently modified version of files from either server. > > > OOooOo and there’s even more good news! I’ve made the notebooks able to > access system site packages, and installed a ton of useful packages > <https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/statistics/manifests/packages.pp#L77-L98> > by default. pandas, scipy, requests, etc. If there’s something else you > think you might need, let us know. Or just pip install it into your > notebook. > > Additionally, pyhive has been installed too, so you should be able to more > easily access Hive directly from a python notebook. > > I’ve updated docs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAP#Usage, > please take a look. > > If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, either here on or > phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183145. > > - Andrew Otto & Analytics Engineering > > > > >
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