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Optimising Temporary Memory Usage for Convolutions and Matmuls on the IPU
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  • 1. Introduction to the available memory proportion option
    • 1.1. The convolution planner
    • 1.2. Setting availableMemoryProportion to a very small value
  • 2. Worked example
    • 2.1. Use case 1: fitting a model or pipeline stage
    • 2.2. Use case 2: Optimising for throughput
  • 3. How to set the available memory proportion
    • 3.1. TensorFlow
    • 3.2. PyTorch
    • 3.3. PopART
  • 4. Legal notices
Optimising Temporary Memory Usage for Convolutions and Matmuls on the IPU

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