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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

Choosing the right storage option for HPC workloads

With so many choices available for cloud data storage, it becomes challenging to decide which storage option to pick for HPC workloads. The choice of data storage depends heavily on the use case and performance, throughput, latency, scaling, archival, and retrieval requirements.

For use cases where we need to archive our object data for a very long time, Amazon S3 should be considered. In addition, Amazon S3 can be very well suited to several HPC applications since it can be accessed by other AWS services. For example, in Amazon SageMaker, we can carry out feature engineering using data stored in Amazon S3 and then ingest those features in the SageMaker offline feature store, which is, again, stored in Amazon S3. Amazon SageMaker uses Amazon S3 for ML model training. It reads data from Amazon S3 and carries out model fitting, hyperparameter optimization, and validation using this data. The model artifacts created as a result are...