Poplar graph programming framework
Documentation for the Poplar SDK and other software to develop ML applications for IPUs
User guides
Information on how to use the Poplar graph programming tools to write code for the IPU
Poplar and PopLibs API Reference
Description of the classes and functions in the Poplar and PopLibs libraries
GCL User Guide and API Reference
Description of the classes and functions in the GCL library
Tile Vertex Instruction Set Architecture
Tile vertex instruction set architecture (ISA) documents for the IPU. This contains the subset of instructions used by the worker threads.
Poplar technical notes
Memory and Performance Optimisation on the IPU
Optimising high-performance machine learning models running on the IPU
Optimising Temporary Memory Usage for Convolutions and Matmuls on the IPU
Using the “available memory proportion” option to optimise memory use or performance