Introduction
Getting started with Apache Spark on Google Axion C4A (Arm Neoverse-V2)
How to create a Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine on GCP
How to deploy Apache Spark on Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machines
Apache Spark baseline testing on Google Axion C4A Arm VM
Apache Spark performance benchmarks on Arm64 and x86_64 in Google Cloud
Next Steps
Google Axion C4A is a family of Arm-based virtual machines built on Google’s custom Axion CPU, which is based on Arm Neoverse-V2 cores. Designed for high-performance and energy-efficient computing, these virtual machines offer strong performance for modern cloud workloads such as CI/CD pipelines, microservices, media processing, and general-purpose applications.
The C4A series provides a cost-effective alternative to x86 virtual machines while leveraging the scalability and performance benefits of the Arm architecture in Google Cloud.
To learn more about Google Axion, refer to the Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs blog.
Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed computing system designed for fast and general-purpose big data processing.
It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and R, and supports in-memory computation for increased performance.
Spark is widely used for large-scale data analytics, machine learning, and real-time data processing. Learn more from the Apache Spark official website and its detailed official documentation .