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Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of the Ascend ecosystem and architecture
  • Overview of CANN and MindSpore
  • Industry relevance and use cases

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Installing MindSpore and the CANN toolkit
  • Using CloudMatrix and ModelArts for project orchestration
  • Validating the environment with sample models

Model Development with MindSpore

  • Training and model definition within MindSpore
  • Dataset formatting and data pipelines
  • Exporting models to formats compatible with Ascend

Performance Optimization on Ascend

  • AI Core scheduling and tiling strategies
  • Custom kernels and operator fusion
  • Profiling and benchmarking tools

Deployment Strategies

  • Tradeoffs between cloud and edge deployment
  • Utilizing the MindX SDK for deployment
  • Integration with CloudMatrix workflows

Debugging and Monitoring

  • Tracing with AiD and Profiler
  • Monitoring resource usage and throughput
  • Debugging runtime failures

Case Study and Lab Integration

  • Lab: Building, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Full pipeline development using MindSpore
  • Performance comparison with other platforms

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Knowledge of AI workflows and neural networks
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Familiarity with model training and deployment pipelines

Target Audience

  • AI engineers
  • Data scientists utilizing the Huawei AI stack
  • ML developers working with MindSpore and Ascend
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