Creating a Compute

What is a compute?

Do we need VMs for training and deploying ML and deep learning models all the time? Not really. That’s where the compute comes into the picture. We can create a compute and use it for ML tasks later. It’s a fully managed workstation maintained on Azure. We can run our training script or host our service deployment using compute target. This location can be our local machine or a cloud-based compute resource.

Azure Machine Learning offers four different types of compute options:

• Compute instance: This is a single-node compute server. It’s helpful for loading a Jupyter Notebook or SSH to compute.

• Compute clusters: This is for having more than one node in the compute servers. It offers parallel processing abilities.

• Inference clusters: These ...