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Course Outline

Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Insights into Ascend architecture and its broader ecosystem
  • Overview of MindSpore and the CANN toolkit
  • Practical use cases and sector-specific relevance

Configuring the Development Environment

  • Installation of the CANN toolkit and MindSpore
  • Leveraging ModelArts and CloudMatrix for orchestrating projects
  • Verifying the environment using example models

Building Models with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models within MindSpore
  • Managing data pipelines and dataset formats
  • Converting models to Ascend-compatible formats

Optimizing Performance on Ascend

  • Implementing operator fusion and custom kernels
  • Strategies for tiling and AI Core scheduling
  • Utilizing benchmarking and profiling utilities

Deployment Methodologies

  • Weighing the tradeoffs between edge and cloud deployment
  • Utilizing the MindX SDK for deployment tasks
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and System Monitoring

  • Employing Profiler and AiD for trace analysis
  • Resolving runtime issues and failures
  • Tracking resource consumption and throughput metrics

Case Studies and Laboratory Integration

  • Developing a complete pipeline using MindSpore
  • Lab session: Constructing, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Comparing performance against alternative platforms

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Solid grasp of neural networks and AI workflows
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Knowledge of model training and deployment pipelines

Target Audience

  • AI engineers
  • Data scientists leveraging the Huawei AI stack
  • ML developers working with Ascend and MindSpore
 21 Hours

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