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Course Outline

Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and ecosystem
  • MindSpore and CANN overview
  • Use cases and industry relevance

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Installing the CANN toolkit and MindSpore
  • Utilizing ModelArts and CloudMatrix for project orchestration
  • Validating the environment with sample models

Model Development with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models in MindSpore
  • Establishing data pipelines and formatting datasets
  • Exporting models to Ascend-compatible formats

Performance Optimization on Ascend

  • Operator fusion and custom kernel implementation
  • Tiling strategies and AI Core scheduling
  • Utilizing benchmarking and profiling tools

Deployment Strategies

  • Evaluating tradeoffs between edge and cloud deployment
  • Using the MindX SDK for deployment
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Tracing with Profiler and AiD
  • Addressing runtime failures
  • Monitoring resource usage and throughput

Case Study and Lab Integration

  • End-to-end pipeline development using MindSpore
  • Lab: Build, optimize, and deploy a model on Ascend
  • Comparing performance against other platforms

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid understanding of neural networks and AI workflows
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Familiarity with model training and deployment pipelines

Target Audience

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

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