CS5720 - Week 12
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Scaling Deep Learning Applications

Scaling Strategies

Scaling Deep Learning involves techniques to handle larger models, bigger datasets, and higher throughput requirements while maintaining performance and efficiency.
  • 📊
    Data Parallelism
    Split data across multiple GPUs/nodes
  • 🧩
    Model Parallelism
    Split model layers across devices
  • 🔄
    Pipeline Parallelism
    Process multiple batches in pipeline
⚠️ Common Challenges
Communication overhead, memory limitations, synchronization issues, and diminishing returns with scale

Infrastructure Options

Deployment Environments:

On-Premise Clusters - Full control, high upfront cost
Cloud Platforms - Elastic scaling, pay-as-you-go
Edge Devices - Low latency, resource constraints
Hybrid Solutions - Balance of control and flexibility

Popular Platforms

AWS SageMaker
Managed ML platform with auto-scaling
Google Cloud AI Platform
TPU support and Vertex AI
Azure Machine Learning
Enterprise-ready ML infrastructure

Distributed Training Architecture

🖥️
Parameter Server
Centralized model parameters
Gradient aggregation
⚙️
Worker Nodes
Compute gradients
Process data batches
🔗
Communication Layer
AllReduce operations
NCCL, MPI backends

Scaling Performance Metrics

Throughput
10K
samples/sec
Scaling Efficiency
85%
linear scaling
Latency
12ms
per inference
GPU Utilization
92%
average usage
Prepared by Dr. Gorkem Kar