Open Source Build Tools

Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems. It is used in both industry and academia in a wide range of domains including robotics, embedded devices, mobile phones, and large high performance computing environments. Dlib's open source licensing allows you to use it in any application, free of charge. Good unit test coverage, the ratio of unit test lines of code to library lines of code is about 1 to 4. The library is tested regularly on MS Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems. No other packages are required to use the library, only APIs that are provided by an out of the box OS are needed. There is no installation or configure step needed before you can use the library. All operating system specific code is isolated inside the OS abstraction layers which are kept as small as possible.

Welcome to Amazon SageMaker. This projects highlights example Jupyter notebooks for a variety of machine learning use cases that you can run in SageMaker. If you’re new to SageMaker we recommend starting with more feature-rich SageMaker Studio. It uses the familiar JupyterLab interface and has seamless integration with a variety of deep learning and data science environments and scalable compute resources for training, inference, and other ML operations. Studio offers teams and companies easy on-boarding for their team members, freeing them up from complex systems admin and security processes. Administrators control data access and resource provisioning for their users. Notebook Instances are another option. They have the familiar Jupyter and JuypterLab interfaces that work well for single users, or small teams where users are also administrators. Advanced users also use SageMaker solely with the AWS CLI and Python scripts using boto3 and/or the SageMaker Python SDK.

The NVIDIA Data Loading Library (DALI) is a library for data loading and pre-processing to accelerate deep learning applications. It provides a collection of highly optimized building blocks for loading and processing image, video and audio data. It can be used as a portable drop-in replacement for built-in data loaders and data iterators in popular deep learning frameworks. Deep learning applications require complex, multi-stage data processing pipelines that include loading, decoding, cropping, resizing, and many other augmentations. These data processing pipelines, which are currently executed on the CPU, have become a bottleneck, limiting the performance and scalability of training and inference. DALI addresses the problem of the CPU bottleneck by offloading data preprocessing to the GPU. Additionally, DALI relies on its own execution engine, built to maximize the throughput of the input pipeline.

SageMaker MXNet Inference Toolkit is an open-source library for serving MXNet models on Amazon SageMaker. This library provides default pre-processing, predict and postprocessing for certain MXNet model types and utilizes the SageMaker Inference Toolkit for starting up the model server, which is responsible for handling inference requests. AWS Deep Learning Containers (DLCs) are a set of Docker images for training and serving models in TensorFlow, TensorFlow 2, PyTorch, and MXNet. Deep Learning Containers provide optimized environments with TensorFlow and MXNet, Nvidia CUDA (for GPU instances), and Intel MKL (for CPU instances) libraries and are available in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). The AWS DLCs are used in Amazon SageMaker as the default vehicles for your SageMaker jobs such as training, inference, transforms etc. They've been tested for machine learning workloads on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS services as well.