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Applied Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing on AWS

By : Mani Khanuja, Farooq Sabir, Shreyas Subramanian, Trenton Potgieter
Book Image

Applied Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing on AWS

By: Mani Khanuja, Farooq Sabir, Shreyas Subramanian, Trenton Potgieter

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) on AWS run compute-intensive workloads across industries and emerging applications. Its use cases can be linked to various verticals, such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), genomics, and autonomous vehicles. This book provides end-to-end guidance, starting with HPC concepts for storage and networking. It then progresses to working examples on how to process large datasets using SageMaker Studio and EMR. Next, you’ll learn how to build, train, and deploy large models using distributed training. Later chapters also guide you through deploying models to edge devices using SageMaker and IoT Greengrass, and performance optimization of ML models, for low latency use cases. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build, train, and deploy your own large-scale ML application, using HPC on AWS, following industry best practices and addressing the key pain points encountered in the application life cycle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introducing High-Performance Computing
6
Part 2: Applied Modeling
13
Part 3: Driving Innovation Across Industries

Understanding edge computing

To understand how we can optimize, manage, and deploy ML models for the edge, we need to first understand what edge computing is. Edge computing is a pattern or type of architecture that brings data storage mechanisms, and computing resources closer to the actual source of the data. So, by bringing these resources closer to the data itself, we are fundamentally improving the responsiveness of the overall application and removing the requirement to provide optimal and resilient network bandwidth.

Therefore, if we refer to the AV example highlighted at the outset of this chapter, by moving the CV model closer to the source of the data, basically the live camera feed, we are able to detect other vehicles in real time. Consequently, instead of having our application make a connection to the infrastructure that hosts the trained model, we send the camera feed to the ML model, retrieve the inferences, and finally, have the application take some action based...