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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Overview of the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Detailed look at Ascend architecture and its ecosystem
  • Introduction to MindSpore and CANN
  • Real-world applications and industry significance

Configuring the Development Setup

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

Creating Models with MindSpore

  • Defining and training models within MindSpore
  • Establishing data pipelines and dataset structures
  • Converting models to 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 tradeoffs between edge and cloud deployment
  • Utilizing the MindX SDK for deployment tasks
  • Integrating with CloudMatrix workflows

Troubleshooting and Monitoring

  • Employing Profiler and AiD for trace analysis
  • Resolving runtime errors and failures
  • Tracking resource consumption and throughput

Case Studies and Lab Practice

  • End-to-end pipeline development using MindSpore
  • Laboratory exercise: Constructing, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Comparative performance analysis against other platforms

Conclusion and Future Pathways

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of neural networks and AI operational flows
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Familiarity with standard 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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