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Using the new MXNet-Model-Server with Apache NiFi

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Created on ‎12-27-2017 10:53 PM - edited ‎08-17-2019 09:36 AM

There is an open source model server for Apache MXNet that I recently tried. It's very easy to install and use. You must have Apache MXNet and Python installed.

45614-mxnetflow.png

Installation and Setup

To install the Model Server it's a simple. I am using Pip3 to make sure I install to Python3 as I also have Python 2.7 installed on my laptop.

pip3 install mxnet --pre --user
pip3 install mxnet-model-server
pip3 install imdbpy
pip3 install dataset


http://127.0.0.1:9999/api-description 

{
  "description": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1:9999", 
    "info": {
      "title": "Model Serving Apis", 
      "version": "1.0.0"
    }, 
    "paths": {
      "/api-description": {
        "get": {
          "operationId": "api-description", 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "description": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }, 
      "/ping": {
        "get": {
          "operationId": "ping", 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "health": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }, 
      "/squeezenet/predict": {
        "post": {
          "consumes": [
            "multipart/form-data"
          ], 
          "operationId": "squeezenet_predict", 
          "parameters": [
            {
              "description": "data should be image which will be resized to: [3, 224, 224]", 
              "in": "formData", 
              "name": "data", 
              "required": "true", 
              "type": "file"
            }
          ], 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "prediction": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }, 
    "schemes": [
      "http"
    ], 
    "swagger": "2.0"
  }
}
http://127.0.0.1:9999/ping
{
  "health": "healthy!"
}

Because each server can specify a port, you can have many running at once. I am running two at once. One for SSD and one for SqueezeNet. In the MXNet Model Server github you will find a Model Zoo containing many image processing libraries and examples.

mxnet-model-server --models squeezenet=https://s3.amazonaws.com/model-server/models/squeezenet_v1.1/squeezenet_v1.1.model --service mms/model_service/mxnet_vision_service.py --port 9999 

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/service_manager.py:14: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:23,195 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:__init__:87] Initialized model serving.
Downloading squeezenet_v1.1.model from https://s3.amazonaws.com/model-server/models/squeezenet_v1.1/squeezenet_v1.1.model.
[08:50:26] src/nnvm/legacy_json_util.cc:190: Loading symbol saved by previous version v0.8.0. Attempting to upgrade...
[08:50:26] src/nnvm/legacy_json_util.cc:198: Symbol successfully upgraded!
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,701 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: squeezenet_predict to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,701 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: ping to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,702 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: api-description to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,703 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric errors for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,703 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric requests for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,703 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric cpu for last 30 seconds is 0.335000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,704 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric memory for last 30 seconds is 0.005696
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,704 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric disk for last 30 seconds is 0.656000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,704 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric overall_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,705 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric inference_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,705 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric preprocess_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,720 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:101] Service started successfully.
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,720 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:102] Service description endpoint: 127.0.0.1:9999/api-description
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,720 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:103] Service health endpoint: 127.0.0.1:9999/ping
[INFO 2017-12-27 08:50:26,730 PID:50443 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/werkzeug/_internal.py:_log:87]  * Running on http://127.0.0.1:9999/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

For the SSD example, I fork the AWS Github (https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server.git) and change directory to the example/ssd directory and follow the setup to prepare the model.

mxnet-model-server --models SSD=resnet50_ssd_model.model --service ssd_service.py --port 9998

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/service_manager.py:14: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:22,800 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:__init__:87] Initialized model serving.
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,510 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: SSD_predict to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,510 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: ping to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,511 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:add_endpoint:182] Adding endpoint: api-description to Flask
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,511 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric errors for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,512 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric requests for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,512 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric cpu for last 30 seconds is 0.290000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,513 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric memory for last 30 seconds is 0.014777
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,513 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric disk for last 30 seconds is 0.656000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,513 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric overall_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,514 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric inference_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,514 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/metric.py:start_recording:118] Metric preprocess_latency for last 30 seconds is 0.000000
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,514 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:101] Service started successfully.
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,514 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:102] Service description endpoint: 127.0.0.1:9998/api-description
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,514 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/mxnet_model_server.py:start_model_serving:103] Service health endpoint: 127.0.0.1:9998/ping
[INFO 2017-12-27 09:02:24,524 PID:55345 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/werkzeug/_internal.py:_log:87]  * Running on http://127.0.0.1:9998/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

http://127.0.0.1:9998/api-description

{
  "description": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1:9998", 
    "info": {
      "title": "Model Serving Apis", 
      "version": "1.0.0"
    }, 
    "paths": {
      "/SSD/predict": {
        "post": {
          "consumes": [
            "multipart/form-data"
          ], 
          "operationId": "SSD_predict", 
          "parameters": [
            {
              "description": "data should be image which will be resized to: [3, 512, 512]", 
              "in": "formData", 
              "name": "data", 
              "required": "true", 
              "type": "file"
            }
          ], 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "prediction": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }, 
      "/api-description": {
        "get": {
          "operationId": "api-description", 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "description": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }, 
      "/ping": {
        "get": {
          "operationId": "ping", 
          "produces": [
            "application/json"
          ], 
          "responses": {
            "200": {
              "description": "OK", 
              "schema": {
                "properties": {
                  "health": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }, 
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }, 
    "schemes": [
      "http"
    ], 
    "swagger": "2.0"
  }
}
http://127.0.0.1:9998/ping
{
  "health": "healthy!"
}

With this call to Squeeze net we get some classes of guesses and probabilities (0.50 -> 50%).

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9999/squeezenet/predict -F "data=@TimSpann2.jpg"

{
  "prediction": [
    [
      {
        "class": "n02877765 bottlecap",
        "probability": 0.5077430009841919
      },
      {
        "class": "n03196217 digital clock",
        "probability": 0.35705313086509705
      },
      {
        "class": "n03706229 magnetic compass",
        "probability": 0.02305465377867222
      },
      {
        "class": "n02708093 analog clock",
        "probability": 0.018635360524058342
      },
      {
        "class": "n04328186 stopwatch, stop watch",
        "probability": 0.015588048845529556
      }
    ]
  ]
}

With this test call to SSD, you will see it identifies a person (me) and provides coordinates of a box around me.

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9998/SSD/predict -F "data=@TimSpann2.jpg" 

{
  "prediction": [
    [
      "person",
      405,
      139,
      614,
      467
    ],
    [
      "boat",
      26,
      0,
      459,
      481
    ]
  ]
}

/opt/demo/curl.sh 

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9998/SSD/predict -F "data=@$1"

/opt/demo/curl2.sh 

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9999/squeezenet/predict -F "data=@$1"


The Apache NiFi flow is easy, I call the REST URL and pass an image. This can be done with a Groovy Script or by executing a Curl Shell.

Logs From Run

[INFO 2017-12-27 17:41:33,447 PID:90860 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/werkzeug/_internal.py:_log:87] 127.0.0.1 - - [27/Dec/2017 17:41:33] "POST /SSD/predict HTTP/1.1" 400 -
[INFO 2017-12-27 17:41:36,289 PID:90860 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:predict_callback:440] Request input: data should be image with jpeg format.
[INFO 2017-12-27 17:41:36,289 PID:90860 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/request_handler/flask_handler.py:get_file_data:133] Getting file data from request.
[INFO 2017-12-27 17:41:37,035 PID:90860 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/serving_frontend.py:predict_callback:475] Response is text.
[INFO 2017-12-27 17:41:37,035 PID:90860 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mms/request_handler/flask_handler.py:jsonify:156] Jsonifying the response: {'prediction': [('motorbike', 270, 877, 1944, 3214), ('car', 77, 763, 2113, 3193)]}

Apache NiFi Results of the Run

45616-mxnetprediction.png

45617-mxnetprediction2.png

One of the Images Processed

45618-timspann2.jpg

Apache NiFi Flow Template

mxnetserver.xml

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