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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)
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Part 1: Introducing High-Performance Computing
6
Part 2: Applied Modeling
13
Part 3: Driving Innovation Across Industries

Amazon’s graphics-optimized instances

Amazon has a variety of graphics-optimized instances that can be used in high-performance computing applications such as machine learning use cases and applications that require graphics-intensive computation workload. These instances are available with either NVIDIA GPUs or AMD GPUs and are required for high-performance computation use cases such as game streaming, graphics rendering, machine learning, and so on.

Benefits and key features of Amazon’s graphics-optimized instances

In this section, we will outline a few of the benefits and key features of Amazon’s graphics-optimized instances:

  • High performance and low cost: Machines with good GPUs are generally quite expensive to purchase and difficult to scale due to their high cost. Amazon provides options to get high-performance instances equipped with state-of-the-art GPUs at low cost. These instances can be used to run graphics-intensive applications, build...