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authorSandy Ryza <sandy@cloudera.com>2014-03-13 12:11:33 -0700
committerPatrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>2014-03-13 12:11:33 -0700
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SPARK-1183. Don't use "worker" to mean executor
Author: Sandy Ryza <sandy@cloudera.com> Closes #120 from sryza/sandy-spark-1183 and squashes the following commits: 5066a4a [Sandy Ryza] Remove "worker" in a couple comments 0bd1e46 [Sandy Ryza] Remove --am-class from usage bfc8fe0 [Sandy Ryza] Remove am-class from doc and fix yarn-alpha 607539f [Sandy Ryza] Address review comments 74d087a [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-1183. Don't use "worker" to mean executor
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-PySpark will automatically ship these functions to workers, along with any objects that they reference.
-Instances of classes will be serialized and shipped to workers by PySpark, but classes themselves cannot be automatically distributed to workers.
-The [Standalone Use](#standalone-use) section describes how to ship code dependencies to workers.
+PySpark will automatically ship these functions to executors, along with any objects that they reference.
+Instances of classes will be serialized and shipped to executors by PySpark, but classes themselves cannot be automatically distributed to executors.
+The [Standalone Use](#standalone-use) section describes how to ship code dependencies to executors.
In addition, PySpark fully supports interactive use---simply run `./bin/pyspark` to launch an interactive shell.