4. Running a program on the Bow Pod

You are now ready to run your first program on the Bow Pod. The Poplar SDK contains a number of example programs, for example, the program adder_ipu.cpp builds a simple graph to add two vectors together and return the result.

1. Make a copy of the poplar/examples/adder directory in your working directory

2. Compile the program:

$ make

3. Run the program.

It will produce the following output:

$ ./adder_ipu
Creating graph
Building engine
v1 sum = 10
v2 sum = 65

This simple example just runs on one IPU. Further examples and tutorials can be found in the Graphcore GitHub repositories examples and tutorials, such as an example showing how to use a custom operator in PyTorch.

See Section 6, Next steps for more information on writing your own programs for the IPU.