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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and its ecosystem
  • Introduction to MindSpore and CANN
  • Industry applications and relevance

Establishing the Development Environment

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

Model Development using MindSpore

  • Defining and training models in MindSpore
  • Data pipelines and dataset structuring
  • Exporting models to Ascend-compatible formats

Optimizing Performance on Ascend

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

Deployment Approaches

  • Tradeoffs between edge and cloud deployment
  • Deploying using the MindX SDK
  • Integration with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Tracing with Profiler and AiD tools
  • Diagnosing runtime errors
  • Monitoring resource consumption and throughput

Case Study and Laboratory Integration

  • End-to-end pipeline development with MindSpore
  • Laboratory exercise: Building, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Performance comparison against other platforms

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Proficiency in neural networks and AI processes
  • Practical experience with 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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