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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Comprehensive overview of Ascend architecture and ecosystem
  • Insights into MindSpore and CANN
  • Real-world use cases and industry relevance

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Installation of the CANN toolkit and MindSpore
  • Leveraging ModelArts and CloudMatrix for project orchestration
  • Validating the environment with sample models

Model Development with MindSpore

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

Performance Optimization on Ascend

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

Deployment Strategies

  • Evaluating tradeoffs between edge and cloud deployment
  • Deploying via the MindX SDK
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Employing Profiler and AiD for tracing
  • Resolving runtime failures
  • Monitoring resource usage and throughput

Case Study and Lab Integration

  • End-to-end pipeline development using MindSpore
  • Lab Exercise: Build, optimise, and deploy a model on Ascend
  • Conducting performance comparisons with other platforms

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Proficiency in neural networks and AI workflows
  • Hands-on experience with Python programming
  • Familiarity with model training and deployment pipelines

Target Audience

  • AI engineers
  • Data scientists working within the Huawei AI stack
  • ML developers utilising Ascend and MindSpore
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