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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and ecosystem
  • Introduction to 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 orchestration
  • Validating the environment with sample models

Model Development Using MindSpore

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

Optimising Performance on Ascend

  • Operator fusion and custom kernel development
  • Tiling strategies and AI Core scheduling
  • Utilising benchmarking and profiling tools

Deployment Strategies

  • Comparing edge versus cloud deployment trade-offs
  • Implementing deployment using the MindX SDK
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Tracing issues using Profiler and AiD
  • Diagnosing runtime failures
  • Monitoring resource utilisation and throughput

Case Study and Lab Integration

  • End-to-end pipeline development with MindSpore
  • Lab: Build, optimise, and deploy a model on Ascend
  • Performance comparison against other platforms

Summary 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 utilising the Huawei AI stack
  • ML developers working with Ascend and MindSpore
 21 Hours

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