Overview of MindSpore
A framework is a platform that provides a foundation for developing software applications.
Since developing software is a complex because it involves many tasks including coding, designing, and testing. For only the coding part, programmers had to take care of the syntax, declarations, garbage collection, statements, exceptions, and more.
Thus, Software frameworks make life easier for developers by allowing them to take control of the entire software development process, or most of it, from a single platform.
Huawei did a great job too while designing MindSpore.
MindSpore is a new open-source deep learning training/inference framework that could be used for mobile, edge and cloud scenarios. MindSpore is designed to provide development experience with friendly design and efficient execution for the data scientists and algorithmic engineers, native support for Ascend AI processor, and software hardware co-optimization. At the meantime MindSpore as a global AI open source community, aims to further advance the development and enrichment of the AI software/hardware application ecosystem.
Some features of MindSpore:
· Development friendliness (
o Automatic differential: unified programming of network and operators, native expression of functions and algorithms, and automatic generation of inverse network operators;
o Automatic parallelization: achieving best model parallelization with automatic model partitioning;
o Automatic optimization: using the same code for dynamic and static computation graphs.);
· Execution Efficiency(
o On-device execution, making full use of the computing power of Ascend AI processors
o Pipeline optimization, maximizing parallel processing linearity
o Deep graph optimization, automatically adapting to the AI core computing power and precision) ;
· Deployment flexibility(
o On-demand collaborative computing across the cloud-edge-device, better protecting privacy;
o Unified architecture for the cloud-edge-device, implementing one-time development and on-demand deployment).
Advantages of using a software framework:
o Assists in establishing better programming practices and fitting use of design patterns.
o Code is more secure.
o Duplicate and redundant code can be avoided
o Helps consistent developing code with fewer bugs.
o Makes it easier to work on sophisticated technologies.
o One could create their software framework or contribute to open-source frameworks. Hence, there is a continuous improvement in the functionality.
o Several code segments and functionalities are pre-built and pre-tested. This makes applications more reliable.
o Testing and debugging the code is a lot easier and can be done even by developers who do not own the code.
o The time required to develop an application is reduced significantly.
