Sheilah Kirui

part1: Simplify BaseIndex to an abstract class

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This PR is in response to @vyasr comment, as partial fix for PR https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/9593 : `BaseIndex `should be reduced as closely as possible to an abstract class. While there are...

Add validation check for out-of-range nodeport values

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Fixes https://github.com/dask/dask-kubernetes/issues/536

Update initialization scripts to install latest RAPIDS `23.12` OR `24.02`

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CC @jacobtomlinson Following the [instructions to deploy RAPIDS in Dataproc](https://docs.rapids.ai/deployment/stable/cloud/gcp/dataproc/): 1. I was able to successfully launch a dataproc cluster with rapids v23.12 stable, cuda 11.8 (both parsed via the...