Ray cannot detect GPU on the cluster

Awoke101 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:36:37 GMT

I am trying to run ray on databricks for chunking and embedding tasks. The cluster I’m using is:

g4dn.xlarge
1-4 workers with 4-16 cores
1 GPU and 16GB memory

I have set spark.task.resource.gpu.amount to 0.5 currently.

This is how I have setup my ray cluster:

setup_ray_cluster( min_worker_nodes=1, max_worker_nodes=3, num_gpus_head_node=1, )

And this is the chunking function:

@ray.remote(num_gpus=0.2) def chunk_udf(row): texts = row["content"] data = row.copy() split_text = splitter.split_text(texts) split_text = [text.replace("\n", " ") for text in split_text] return list(zip(split_text,data))

When I run the flat_map function for chunking. It throws the following error:

chunked_ds = ds.flat_map(chunk_udf) chunked_ds.show(5)

At least one of the input arguments for this task could not be computed: ray.exceptions.RaySystemError: System error: Attempting to deserialize object on a CUDA device but torch.cuda.is_available() is False. If you are running on a CPU-only machine, please use torch.load with map_location=torch.device('cpu') to map your storages to the CPU.

Is there something I need to change in my setup?
torch.cuda.is_available() returns True in the notebook.

Re: Ray cannot detect GPU on the cluster

Krishna_S — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:10:06 GMT

I have replicated all your steps and created the ray cluster exactly as you have done.

Also, I have set: spark.conf.set("spark.task.resource.gpu.amount", "0.5")

And I see a warning that shows that I don't allocate any GPU for Spark (as 1), even though I set it to 0.5

See the attached image and the error below.

You configured 'spark.task.resource.gpu.amount' to 1.0, we recommend setting this value to 0 so that Spark jobs do not reserve GPU resources, preventing Ray-on-Spark workloads from having the maximum number of GPUs available.

What likely happened is that since you set up the cluster to auto-scale, it probably did not scale as expected, causing Spark to use the only GPU on the node and resulting in the issue you are facing.

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