1. GPU support in Spark can accelerate analytics workloads through automatically generating CUDA code from Spark Java code or integrating Spark with GPU-enabled libraries and applications. 2. Production deployments face challenges in identifying GPU vs CPU execution, data preparation for GPU, and low resource utilization. Scheduling must handle mixed GPU and CPU workloads across non-identical hosts to avoid overload and improve utilization. 3. IBM Conductor with Spark provides solutions through fine-grained scheduling that recognizes GPU tasks, prioritizes and allocates resources independently, and allows adaptive scheduling between CPU and GPU. This improves time to results through better resource utilization.