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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

Reviewing the key considerations for optimal edge deployments

As we saw in the previous two chapters, there are several key factors that need to be taken into account when designing an appropriate architecture for training as well as deploying ML models at scale. In both these chapters, we also saw how Amazon SageMaker can be used to implement an effective ephemeral infrastructure for executing these tasks. Hence, in a later part of this chapter, we will also review how SageMaker can be used to deploy ML models to the edge at scale. Nonetheless, before we can dive into edge deployments with SageMaker, it is important to review some of the key factors that influence the successful deployment of an ML model at the edge:

  • Efficiency
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Security

While not all the mentioned factors may influence how an edge architecture is designed and may not be vital to the ML use case, it is important to at least consider them. So, let’s start by...