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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • An overview of Ascend architecture and its ecosystem.
  • An introduction to MindSpore and CANN.
  • Exploring use cases and their industry relevance.

Configuring the Development Environment

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

Building Models with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models within MindSpore.
  • Managing data pipelines and dataset formatting.
  • Exporting models to formats compatible with Ascend.

Optimizing Performance on Ascend

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

Deployment Strategies

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

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Employing Profiler and AiD for tracing.
  • Troubleshooting runtime failures.
  • Monitoring resource utilization and throughput.

Case Study and Lab Integration

  • Developing a full pipeline using MindSpore.
  • Lab exercise: Build, optimize, and deploy a model on Ascend.
  • Comparing performance across different platforms.

Conclusion and Future Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of neural networks and AI workflows.
  • Practical experience with Python programming.
  • Familiarity with model training and deployment pipelines.

Target Audience

  • AI engineers.
  • Data scientists working within the Huawei AI ecosystem.
  • ML developers utilizing Ascend and MindSpore.
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