Maybe you are still asking more than what is available? It really depends on what kind of cluster you have available. It depends on following paramaters: 1)cloudera manager-> yarn-> configuration ->yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb (= Amount of physical memory, in MiB, that can be allocated for containers=all memory that yarn can use on 1 worker node) 2)yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb (container memmory minimum= every container will request this much memory) 3)yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores (Container Virtual CPU Cores) 4)how many worker nodes? Cluster with x nodes?   I noticed you really are requesting a lot of cores too. Maybe you can try reduce these a bit? This might also be a bottleneck.  ... View more