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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and its ecosystem
  • High-level look at MindSpore and CANN
  • Real-world use cases and industry applications

Configuring the Development Environment

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

Building Models with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models in MindSpore
  • Managing data pipelines and dataset structures
  • Converting models into Ascend-compatible formats

Optimizing Performance on Ascend

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

Deployment Approaches

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

Debugging and Monitoring

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

Case Study and Practical Lab

  • Developing a complete pipeline with MindSpore
  • Hands-on lab: Construct, optimize, and deploy a model on Ascend
  • Comparing performance against other platforms

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A 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 utilizing the Huawei AI stack
  • ML developers working with Ascend and MindSpore
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