Instructor: four speakers (Microsoft)

Title: HPC and deep learning labs in Microsoft Azure Cloud

Target audience: general

Course plan:

• High-value research computing scenarios and strategies
• Considerations of cloud vs. on-premise computing
  • CPU, Storage, Networking
  • Data movement & governance considerations
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) case study
• MPI InfiniBand cluster in Azure Cloud
• HPC Hands-On Lab: running jobs on the cluster
• Deep Learning Lab: introduction to machine learning, deep learning & AI
  • use cases (brain segmentation, text extraction, etc)
  • common deep-learning architectures: CNN, RNN, LSTM
  • common frameworks (TensorFlow, CNTK, Caffe, etc)
• Summary & wrap up

Duration: 3 hours

Level: beginner

Prerequisites:

Setup:

• Cluster reservation:
• Cluster space:
• Cluster software:
• Laptop software: