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Accelerate Deep Learning Workloads with Amazon SageMaker

By : Vadim Dabravolski
Book Image

Accelerate Deep Learning Workloads with Amazon SageMaker

By: Vadim Dabravolski

Overview of this book

Over the past 10 years, deep learning has grown from being an academic research field to seeing wide-scale adoption across multiple industries. Deep learning models demonstrate excellent results on a wide range of practical tasks, underpinning emerging fields such as virtual assistants, autonomous driving, and robotics. In this book, you will learn about the practical aspects of designing, building, and optimizing deep learning workloads on Amazon SageMaker. The book also provides end-to-end implementation examples for popular deep-learning tasks, such as computer vision and natural language processing. You will begin by exploring key Amazon SageMaker capabilities in the context of deep learning. Then, you will explore in detail the theoretical and practical aspects of training and hosting your deep learning models on Amazon SageMaker. You will learn how to train and serve deep learning models using popular open-source frameworks and understand the hardware and software options available for you on Amazon SageMaker. The book also covers various optimizations technique to improve the performance and cost characteristics of your deep learning workloads. By the end of this book, you will be fluent in the software and hardware aspects of running deep learning workloads using Amazon SageMaker.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Deep Learning on Amazon SageMaker
6
Part 2: Building and Training Deep Learning Models
10
Part 3: Serving Deep Learning Models

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed the available hardware accelerators that are suitable for running DL inference programs. We also discussed how your models can be optimized for target hardware accelerators using the TensorRT compiler for NVIDIA GPU accelerators and Neuron SDK for AWS Inferentia accelerators. Then, we reviewed the SageMaker Neo service, which allows you to compile supported models for a wide range of hardware platforms with minimal development efforts and highlighted several limitations of this service. After reading this chapter, you should be able to make decisions about which hardware accelerators to use and how to optimize them based on your specific use case requirements around latency, throughput, and cost.

Once you have selected your hardware accelerator and model optimization strategy, you will need to decide which model server to use and how to further tune your inference workload at serving time. In the next chapter, we will discuss popular model server...