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PopVision Graph Analyser User Guide
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  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. User Guide
    • 2.1. Overview
      • 2.1.1. End User License Agreement
      • 2.1.2. About the IPU
    • 2.2. Capturing IPU reports
      • 2.2.1. Limiting report output
      • 2.2.2. Reloading reports
      • 2.2.3. Poplar report files
        • Application and file versions
        • Binary archive (archive.a)
        • Poplar Profile (profile.pop)
        • Lowered Vars Information
        • Serialized Computation graph (serialized_graph.capnp)
        • Frameworks Information (framework.json & app.json)
        • Debug Information (debug.cbor)
        • Graph Profile (graph.json or graph.cbor)
        • Execution Profile (execution.json or execution.cbor)
      • 2.2.4. Using TensorFlow
      • 2.2.5. Using PopART
      • 2.2.6. Using PyTorch
    • 2.3. Opening reports
      • 2.3.1. Comparing reports
      • 2.3.2. Local reports
        • Opening local reports
      • 2.3.3. Remote reports
        • Opening a remote report
        • Connection errors
    • 2.4. Viewing reports
      • 2.4.1. Using the side menu
      • 2.4.2. Adjusting report size
        • Navigating report graphs
        • Keyboard graph navigation
        • Graph data keys
      • 2.4.3. Saving report images to disk
    • 2.5. Viewing a Summary Report
      • 2.5.1. Program Information
        • Target
        • Graph
      • 2.5.2. Engine options
      • 2.5.3. Framework and Application JSON files
      • 2.5.4. Report files
    • 2.6. Viewing a Memory Report
      • 2.6.1. Navigating memory reports
        • Selecting individual tiles/IPUs
        • Memory Report view options
      • 2.6.2. Total Memory graph
        • Memory Report breakdown
          • Breakdown by Region
          • Breakdown by category
      • 2.6.3. Liveness Memory graph
      • 2.6.4. Variables Memory graph
      • 2.6.5. Tile map Memory graph
        • Changing the colour scale
      • 2.6.6. Tile memory usage
        • Tile memory usage: Details tab
          • Excluding Gaps
        • Tile memory usage: Vertices tab
        • Tile memory usage: Exchanges tab
        • Tile memory usage: Variables tab
          • Memory interference
        • Variable types
        • Known variables
        • Plot multiple variables
        • Full-screen option
        • Toggle between table and graph view
        • Show differences between selected tiles
        • Show base address offset
    • 2.7. Viewing a Liveness Report
      • 2.7.1. Navigating Liveness reports
      • 2.7.2. The Liveness graph
        • Selecting a source
        • Filtering steps
        • Viewing options
      • 2.7.3. Liveness stack details
        • Viewing enhanced debug information
        • Always Live Variables
        • Not Always Live Variables
        • Vertices
        • Cycle estimates
        • Show differences between selected tiles
    • 2.8. Viewing a Program Tree
      • 2.8.1. Searching for program steps
      • 2.8.2. Details tab
      • 2.8.3. Viewing Debug Information
      • 2.8.4. Change Layout
    • 2.9. Viewing an Operations Summary
      • 2.9.1. Operations table
        • Selecting a software layer
        • Selecting which columns to display
        • Sorting and filtering
      • 2.9.2. Operations Summary tabs
        • Summary tab
        • Program Tree tab
        • Code tab
        • Cycles tab
        • FLOPs tab
        • Debug tab
    • 2.10. Viewing an Operations Graph
      • 2.10.1. Graph entities
        • HLO layers
          • Defining HLO layers
        • High Level Operations (HLOs)
        • HLO Calls/fusion operations
        • Edge tensors
      • 2.10.2. Selected entity information tabs
      • 2.10.3. Highlighting operations by metric
      • 2.10.4. Advanced options
    • 2.11. Viewing an Execution Trace
      • 2.11.1. The Execution Trace graph
        • Execution View
          • Defining program names
          • Run-specific execution parameters
        • Selecting IPUs
        • Filtering steps
        • Viewing options
      • 2.11.2. Execution Trace details
        • Summary tab
          • Statistics
          • Cycle proportions
          • Tile balance
        • Details tab
          • Internal Sync
          • External Sync
          • SyncAns
          • OnTileExecute
          • DoExchange
          • GlobalExchange operations
          • StreamCopy
      • 2.11.3. Change Layout
    • 2.12. Application preferences
      • 2.12.1. Setting the colour theme
      • 2.12.2. SSH preferences
      • 2.12.3. Menu close delay
      • 2.12.4. Scroll behaviour
      • 2.12.5. Show help links
      • 2.12.6. Quit after last window is closed
      • 2.12.7. Experimental features
      • 2.12.8. Show graph stats
      • 2.12.9. Stack graph values
      • 2.12.10. Software update
    • 2.13. FAQs
      • 2.13.1. Not Always Live memory discrepancy
    • 2.14. Release notes
    • 2.15. Licensing information
  • 3. Release Notes
    • 3.1. Version 3.1.1
    • 3.2. Version 3.0.3
      • 3.2.1. General improvements
      • 3.2.2. Execution Trace
      • 3.2.3. Program Tree
    • 3.3. Version 2.5.5
      • 3.3.1. Highlights
      • 3.3.2. Liveness Report
      • 3.3.3. Program Tree
      • 3.3.4. Execution Trace
      • 3.3.5. General improvements and bug fixes
    • 3.4. Version 2.4.4
      • 3.4.1. Highlights
      • 3.4.2. Summary Report
      • 3.4.3. Memory Report
      • 3.4.4. Liveness Report
      • 3.4.5. Program Tree
      • 3.4.6. Operations Graph
      • 3.4.7. Operations Summary
      • 3.4.8. Execution Trace
      • 3.4.9. General improvements and bug fixes
    • 3.5. Version 2.3.2
      • 3.5.1. Highlights
      • 3.5.2. Poplar
      • 3.5.3. PopART and TensorFlow
      • 3.5.4. PopVision Graph Analyser
      • 3.5.5. Summary Report
      • 3.5.6. Memory Report
      • 3.5.7. Liveness Report
      • 3.5.8. Operations Report
      • 3.5.9. Execution Trace Report
    • 3.6. Version 2.2.5
      • 3.6.1. Highlights
      • 3.6.2. Poplar
      • 3.6.3. Memory Report
      • 3.6.4. Liveness Report
      • 3.6.5. Program Tree
    • 3.7. Version 2.1.3
      • 3.7.1. Highlights
      • 3.7.2. Summary Report
      • 3.7.3. Memory Report
      • 3.7.4. Liveness Report
      • 3.7.5. Execution Trace
      • 3.7.6. SSH Improvements
      • 3.7.7. General application-wide changes
    • 3.8. Version 2.0.0
      • 3.8.1. Capturing Reports
      • 3.8.2. Opening Reports
      • 3.8.3. Summary Report
      • 3.8.4. Memory Report
      • 3.8.5. Liveness Report
      • 3.8.6. Program Tree Report
      • 3.8.7. Execution Trace Report
      • 3.8.8. Comparing Reports
      • 3.8.9. Help
      • 3.8.10. General
      • 3.8.11. Experimental Features
  • 4. Trademarks & copyright
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  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. User Guide
    • 2.1. Overview
    • 2.2. Capturing IPU reports
    • 2.3. Opening reports
    • 2.4. Viewing reports
    • 2.5. Viewing a Summary Report
    • 2.6. Viewing a Memory Report
    • 2.7. Viewing a Liveness Report
    • 2.8. Viewing a Program Tree
    • 2.9. Viewing an Operations Summary
    • 2.10. Viewing an Operations Graph
    • 2.11. Viewing an Execution Trace
    • 2.12. Application preferences
    • 2.13. FAQs
    • 2.14. Release notes
    • 2.15. Licensing information
  • 3. Release Notes
    • 3.1. Version 3.1.1
    • 3.2. Version 3.0.3
    • 3.3. Version 2.5.5
    • 3.4. Version 2.4.4
    • 3.5. Version 2.3.2
    • 3.6. Version 2.2.5
    • 3.7. Version 2.1.3
    • 3.8. Version 2.0.0
  • 4. Trademarks & copyright
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