Document Updates

The main updates to the documents are summarised below. In addition there will have been many incremental improvements and corrections.

April 2023

  • New document: PyTorch Geometric Quick Start giving a summary of resources available for getting started with using PyTorch Geometric on the IPU.

March 2023

SDK 3.1 Release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 3.2 Release Notes.

December 2022

New/updated documents

SDK 3.1 Release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 3.1 Release Notes.

November 2022

New/updated documents

September 2022

SDK 3.0 Release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 3.0 Release Notes.

Tutorials and examples

There are two new tutorials:

July 2022

New/updated documents

SDK 2.6 Release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.6 Release Notes.

Tutorials and examples

June 2022

May 2022

New documents

SDK 2.5 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.5 Release Notes.

Tutorials and examples

March 2022

Tutorials and examples

January 2022

December 2021

New documents

SDK 2.4 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.4 Release Notes.

  • New gcipuinfo library for monitoring and gathering information about the IPUs available in a system, and the applications using them.

Tutorials and examples

October 2021

SDK 2.3 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.3 Release Notes.

Tutorials and examples

August 2021

SDK 2.2 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.2 Release Notes.

New tutorials and examples

July 2021

A new white paper on Graphcore’s AI-Float technology with hardware support for mixed-precision and stochastic rounding.

June 2021

SDK 2.1 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.1 Release Notes.

Other changes

May 2021

April 2021

March 2021

Hardware documents

Updates since SDK 2.0

Since the SDK release, the following documents have been updated:

  • The Graphcore Command Line Tools document has been updated to 1.0.51. This adds a description of the information returned by the gc-info --tile-overview option and documents the new gc-exchangewritetest command.

  • The Targeting the IPU from TensorFlow 1 has been updated with an improved explanation of the role of XLA.

SDK 2.0 release

For full details of all the changes in this release, see the SDK 2.0 Release Notes.

The main documentation changes are:

Other changes

November 2020

This includes the release of Poplar SDK 1.4, the IPU-M2000, the IPU-POD reference design and the supporting software tools.