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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

ML applied to AV systems

Developing highly sophisticated Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with the ability to safely operate an AV is a highly complex technical challenge. Practitioners require PB of real-world sensor data, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of virtual Central Processing Unit (vCPU) hours, and thousands of accelerator chips or Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hours to train these DNNs (also called models or algorithms). The end goal is to ensure these models can operate a vehicle autonomously safer than a human driver.

In this section, we’ll talk about what is involved in developing models relevant to end-to-end AV/ADAS development workflows on AWS.

Model development

AVs typically operate through five key processes, each of which may involve ML to various degrees:

  • Localization and mapping
  • Perception
  • Prediction
  • Planning
  • Control

Each of the steps also requires different supporting data and infrastructure to efficiently produce...