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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

Blue/green deployments

In a production environment where our models are running to make inferences in real time or near real time, it is very important that when we need to update our endpoints that it can happen without any disruption or problems. Amazon SageMaker automatically uses blue/green deployment methodology whenever we update our endpoints. In this kind of scenario, a new fleet, called the green fleet, is provisioned with our updated endpoints. The workload is then shifted from the old fleet, called the blue fleet, to the green fleet. After an evaluation period to make sure that everything is running without any issues, the blue fleet is terminated. SageMaker also provides the following three different traffic-shifted modes for blue/green deployment, allowing us to have more control over the traffic-shifting patterns.

All at once

In this traffic-shifting mode, all of the traffic is shifted at once from the blue fleet to the green fleet. The blue (old) fleet is kept...