Your local app will be called "driver program", which creates jobs and submits them to the cluster for running.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:19 AM, David Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > From > docs<https://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html> > : > > > *Connecting an Application to the ClusterTo run an application on the > Spark cluster, simply pass the spark://IP:PORT URL of the master as to the > SparkContext constructor.* > > Could someone enlighten me on what happens if I run the app, from say, > Eclipse on my local machine, but use the url of the master node which is on > cloud. What role does my local JVM play then? >
