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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

Selecting the right compute for HPC workloads

Now that you have learned about the foundations of compute and network on AWS, we are ready to explore some typical architectural patterns for compute on AWS.

Selecting the right compute for HPC and ML applications involves considering the rest of the architecture you are designing, and therefore involves all aspects of the Well-Architected Framework:

  • Operational excellence
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Performance efficiency
  • Cost optimization

We cover best practices across these pillars at the end of this section, but first, we will start with the most basic pattern of computing on AWS and add complexity as we progress.

Pattern 1 – a standalone instance

Many HPC applications that are built for simulations, financial services, CFD, or genomics can run on a single EC2 instance as long as the right instance type is selected. We discussed many of these instance-type options in the Introducing AWS compute...