6. Next steps

This page lists sources of information to help you learn about programming for, and running code on, the IPU.

6.1. Documentation

All documentation is on the Graphcore documentation portal. There you can find user guides for hardware and software, API references and technical notes.

The IPU Programmer’s Guide provides an introduction to the IPU architecture, programming model and tools available.

Technical notes cover a range of topics about implementing and optimising models for the IPU.

6.2. Running applications in Docker

You can run Poplar applications in Docker on a Linux machine using one or more physical IPU devices.

Refer to Using IPUs from Docker for more information.

6.3. Tutorials, examples and applications

You can browse the Graphcore Model Garden to find applications that run on IPUs. You can filter by category, model type and framework.

There are more applications in the examples repository on GitHub. You may need to checkout the tag that corresponds to the version of the Poplar SDK you are using.

The latest tutorials and simple code examples are also in the examples repository:

• Tutorials

• Simple applications

• Feature examples

Note

If you are using a version of the Poplar SDK prior to version 3.2, you will need to use the old GitHub tutorials repository. This has branches corresponding to each version of the SDK; for example for SDK 3.1, checkout branch sdk-release-3.1.

6.4. Other support

• When looking for answers or asking questions on StackOverflow, use the tag “ipu”.

• You can request support on the Graphcore Support portal by clicking on the Submit a ticket link.

• For general help, discussions and announcements, please join our Graphcore Slack Community.