System management

Guides describing tools to manage Pod systems

ICU Recovery Mode (911)

Information for recovering from ICU error states, for example after a failed firmware update.

BMC User Guide

User guide that defines the functions and the interfaces provided by the BMC software on an IPU-Machine (IPU-M2000 and Bow-2000).

Graphcore Command Line Tools

User guide for the command line tools that provide information on the current status of the connected hardware. These tools are included with the Poplar SDK.

Graphcore IPU Info Library (gcipuinfo)

User guide for the Graphcore IPU Info library (gcipuinfo). This library provides an API for monitoring and gathering information about the IPUs available in a system, and the applications using them.

rack_tool(1)

User guide for the tool that allows you to perform operations related to one or more IPU-Machines in a rack.

V-IPU Administrator Guide

User guide for administrators of data centre clusters based on the Graphcore® Virtual-IPU™ (V-IPU). The V-IPU management software provides a control plane for large-scale multi-tenanted deployments of IPUs.

V-IPU User Guide

User guide for users of data centre clusters based on the Graphcore® Virtual-IPU™ (V-IPU). The V-IPU management software provides a control plane for large-scale multi-tenanted deployments of IPUs.