A note on hardware before jumping to prerequisites. The hardware infrastructure I use throughout in this chapter comprises of a 64-bit Windows Dell 8700 machine running Windows 10 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz and an installed memory of 32 GB.
In this subsection, we document three software prerequisites that must be in place before installing Spark.
At the time of this writing, my prerequisite software setup consisted of JDK 8, Scala 2.11.12, and SBT 0.13.8, respectively. The following list is a minimal, recommended setup (note that you are free to try a higher JDK 8 version and Scala 2.12.x).
Here is the required prerequisite list for this chapter:
- Java SE Development Kit 8
- Scala 2.11.12 ...
