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Course Outline

Intro to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and its ecosystem
  • Introduction to MindSpore and CANN
  • Real-world use cases and industry impact

Configuring the Development Environment

  • Installing the CANN toolkit and MindSpore
  • Leveraging ModelArts and CloudMatrix for project management
  • Validating the setup with sample models

Building Models with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models in MindSpore
  • Managing data pipelines and dataset formats
  • Exporting models to Ascend-compatible formats

Optimizing Ascend Performance

  • Implementing operator fusion and custom kernels
  • Applying tiling strategies and AI Core scheduling
  • Utilizing benchmarking and profiling tools

Deployment Approaches

  • Comparing edge versus cloud deployment trade-offs
  • Using the MindX SDK for deployment tasks
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and System Monitoring

  • Employing Profiler and AiD for tracing activities
  • Resolving runtime failures
  • Tracking resource consumption and throughput

Case Studies and Lab Application

  • End-to-end pipeline development using MindSpore
  • Practical lab: Building, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Benchmarking performance against other platforms

Recap and Future Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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

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