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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to the Huawei Ascend Platform

  • Overview of Ascend architecture and its ecosystem
  • Introduction to MindSpore and CANN
  • Real-world use cases and industry applications

Configuring the Development Environment

  • Installation of the CANN toolkit and MindSpore
  • Utilizing ModelArts and CloudMatrix for project management
  • Validating the setup with sample models

Model Development Using MindSpore

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

Optimizing Performance on Ascend

  • Implementing operator fusion and custom kernels
  • Strategies for tiling and AI Core scheduling
  • Utilizing benchmarking and profiling tools

Deployment Approaches

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

Debugging and Monitoring Processes

  • Leveraging Profiler and AiD for tracing purposes
  • Diagnosing runtime failures
  • Monitoring resource utilization and throughput

Case Study and Practical Lab Integration

  • Developing a full pipeline using MindSpore
  • Lab exercise: Building, optimizing, and deploying a model on Ascend
  • Comparing performance against alternative platforms

Conclusion and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of neural networks and AI workflows
  • 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 Ascend and MindSpore

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