Document Updates¶
The main updates to the documents are summarised below. In addition there will have been many improvements and corrections.
November 2020¶
This includes the release of Poplar SDK 1.4, the IPU-M2000, the IPU-POD reference design and the supporting software tools.
- Poplar SDK 1.4
Updates for new features in the SDK 1.4 release (see the SDK release notes for details of changes and new features in the SDK)
PopART: New chapter on writing custom ops
PopTorch: Much more complete documentation, including API and plus new GitHub tutorial & how-to video
Keras: Introduction to using Keras in TensorFlow 2 on the IPU
TensorFlow: Added documentation and GitHub tutorial on Graph Recompilation in TensorFlow 2
PopVision: Added documentation for the System Analyser and the trace instrumentation library (libpvti)
Additional video tutorials: Using Data Feeds & Training Loops, Evaluating Batch Sizes for IPUs & Fundamentals of BSP
- New and updated documents for IPU-POD64 reference design
- New documents for IPU-M2000 direct attach
- Documents for hardware support tools: