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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

Overview of Huawei’s AI Ecosystem

  • Ascend AI hardware: 310, 910, and 910B chips
  • MindSpore, CANN, and auxiliary tools
  • AI development workflow: from training to deployment

Understanding the CANN Toolkit

  • Definition of CANN and its significance
  • Summary of core components (ATC, AscendCL, operator libraries)
  • CANN’s role in AI inference pipelines

Getting Started with MindSpore and CANN

  • Environment setup (MindSpore + CANN + Python)
  • Training a fundamental model in MindSpore
  • Exporting and converting the model via ATC

Executing Inference on Ascend Devices

  • Utilising the OM model with AscendCL or Python APIs
  • Basic input/output preprocessing
  • Verifying model outputs

Integrating Other Frameworks

  • Support overview for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX
  • Supported operators and associated limitations
  • Demonstration of simple model conversion (e.g., from ONNX to OM)

Exploring the CANN and MindSpore Developer Ecosystem

  • Key resources: documentation, GitHub repositories, sample code
  • MindSpore Hub and model zoo introduction
  • Community forums, events, and support channels

Recap and Future Steps

Requirements

  • A basic grasp of machine learning and deep learning principles
  • Some programming familiarity with Python
  • No previous experience with CANN or Ascend hardware is necessary

Target Audience

  • Machine learning developers investigating deployment workflows
  • Students or researchers unfamiliar with Huawei’s AI ecosystem
  • AI framework contributors and enthusiasts interested in model acceleration

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