Graphcore OpenStack reference design for IPU-POD systems

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1. Goal
  • 1.2. Use cases
  • 1.3. Acronyms and abbreviations
• 2. Graphcore components and dependencies
  • 2.1. Graphcore components
    • 2.1.1. Hardware provided by Graphcore
    • 2.1.2. Software provided by Graphcore
  • 2.2. Dependencies
    • 2.2.1. Third party hardware
    • 2.2.2. Third party software
• 3. High-level architecture
  • 3.1. Functional components
    • 3.1.1. IPU-POD hardware/software stack
    • 3.1.2. OpenStack
  • 3.2. Use cases and component interactions
• 4. Low-level architecture
  • 4.1. Hardware
  • 4.2. Network design
    • 4.2.1. 1GbE management network
    • 4.2.2. 100GbE data network
    • 4.2.3. Networks and VLANs
    • 4.2.4. Security groups
    • 4.2.5. RDMA in VMs using SR-IOV
    • 4.2.6. Configuration in OpenStack
  • 4.3. Storage design
    • 4.3.1. NFS high performance storage for IPU workloads
    • 4.3.2. VM images and volumes storage
    • 4.3.3. Local storage
  • 4.4. Poplar server design
  • 4.5. OpenStack Controller
    • 4.5.1. Authentication and secret management
    • 4.5.2. Software images
    • 4.5.3. Open vSwitch (OVS)
    • 4.5.4. OpenStack Compute
    • 4.5.5. Storage services
    • 4.5.6. Web interface
    • 4.5.7. Supporting services
  • 4.6. Security
• 5. References
• 6. Revision history
• 7. Trademarks & copyright