https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-get-SparkContext-in-executor/m-p/114170#M76968 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/12833/gobisubramani.html" nodeid="12833">@Gobi Subramani</A> </P><P>Driver Program is the process that runs the main() function of the application and creates the Spark Context. The Cluster manger then acquires resources on the cluster. After this an executor process is launched on the resources acquired by the cluster manager. The task/s then gets sent to the individual executors for execution.</P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:26:04 GMT vjain 2016-11-21T23:26:04Z