Azure Machine Learning Notebooks is a cloud-based environment for developing and executing interactive Jupyter notebooks within a managed machine learning workspace. It provides managed machine learning compute through cloud-based workstations and containerized environments pre-configured with GPU drivers and kernels for high-performance model training.
The project functions as a distributed GPU training platform and an ML experiment tracking system to monitor training metrics and version data assets. It also serves as an MLOps pipeline orchestrator for automating modular workflows and a model inference endpoint for exposing trained models as online APIs for real-time prediction and scoring.
The platform covers a broad range of capabilities including data science workspace management, the execution of containerized training jobs on GPU clusters, and the organization of versioned data assets. It also provides tools for securing development workspaces and persisting files across shared network drives.