Start a New Session

Navigate to your project's Overview page.

Click New Session.

The information presented on this page will depend on which default engine you have chosen for your project: Runtime or Legacy Engines. You can change the default engine later in this task.

The Start A New Session dialog box opens.

Check the settings for your session:

If your project is using ML Runtimes, you will see the following settings:

Editor: Selects the Editor; currently only Workbench is supported and therefore the selector is static.
Kernel: Selects the Kernel, for example Python 3.7, R4.0.
Edition: Selects the Runtime Edition. Initially only Standard variants are supported.
Version: Selects the ML Runtimes version.

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The selector options only consider the configurations supported by the actual deployments and certain selections will automatically limit others. For example, certain versions are only relevant for Python or certain editors are supported only with certain kernels.

If your project is using Legacy Engines, you will see the following settings:

Editor: Selects the Editor; currently only Workbench is supported and therefore the selector is static.
Kernel: Selects the Kernel. Initially only Python Runtimes are supported.
Engine Image: Selects the engine image. Click Configure to display the Project Setting > Advanced window to modify your environment variables and shared memory limit.

If your project is using Legacy Engines, you can modify the engine image used by this session:

By Engine Image, click Configure.
Cloudera Machine Learning displays the Project Settings page.
Select the Runtime/Engine tab.
Next to Default Engine, select ML Runtime or Legacy Engine.
Click Save Engine.

Specify your Resource Profile.

This attribute will define how many vCPUs and how much memory will be reserved to run the workload (for example, session including the runtime itself). The minimum configuration is 1vCPU and 2 GB memory.

Click Start Session.

The command prompt at the bottom right of your browser window will turn green when the engine is ready. Sessions typically take between 10 and 20 seconds to start.