H2O-3 on FfDL: Bringing deep learning and machine learning closer together

This post is co-authored by Animesh Singh, Nicholas Png, Tommy Li, and Vinod Iyengar. Deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, MXNet, and Chainer have reduced the effort and skills needed to train and use deep learning models. But for AI developers and data scientists, it's still a challenge to set up and use these frameworks in a consistent manner for distributed model training and serving. The open source Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL) project provides a consistent way for AI developers and data scientists to use deep learning as a service on Kubernetes and to use Jupyter notebooks to execute distributed deep learning training for models written with these multiple frameworks. Now, FfDL is announcing a new addition that brings together that deep learning training capability with state-of-the-art machine learning methods.