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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

Networking on AWS

Networking on AWS is a vast topic that is out of the scope of this book. However, in order to easily explain some of the sections and chapters that follow, we will attempt to provide a brief overview here. First, AWS has a concept called regions, which are physical areas around the world where AWS places clusters of data centers. Each region contains multiple logically separated, groups of data centers called availability zones. Each availability zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security. Availability zones are connected via redundant and ultra-low latency AWS Networks. At the time of writing this chapter, AWS has 26 regions and 84 availability zones.

The next foundational concept we will discuss here is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is a logical partition that lets you launch and group AWS resources. In the following diagram, we can see that a region has multiple availability zones that can span multiple VPCs:

Figure 3.7 – Relationship between regions, VPCs, and availability zones
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