Poplar and PopLibs User Guide

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Programming with Poplar
  • 2.1. Poplar programming model
  • 2.2. The structure of a Poplar program
    • 2.2.1. What happens at run time
  • 2.3. Virtual graphs
  • 2.4. Replicated graphs
    • 2.4.1. Replicating an existing graph
    • 2.4.2. Creating a replicated graph
  • 2.5. Data streams and remote buffers
    • 2.5.1. Data streams
      • Device-side streams
      • Host-side stream access
    • 2.5.2. Optimising host data transfers
      • Prefetch
      • Sync configurations
      • Software sync
    • 2.5.3. Remote memory buffers
    • 2.5.4. Stream buffer size limit
  • 2.6. Device code
    • 2.6.1. Stack allocation
    • 2.6.2. Pre-compiling codelets
• 3. Using the Poplar library
• 4. The PopLibs libraries
  • 4.1. Using PopLibs
• 5. Profiling
  • 5.1. Generating profiling information
    • 5.1.1. Profiling options
  • 5.2. Profile summary
    • 5.2.1. Printing from a Poplar program
    • 5.2.2. Command line conversion
    • 5.2.3. Summary report format
• 6. Environment Variables
  • 6.1. Logging
  • 6.2. Graph report
  • 6.3. Setting options
• 7. Profiling data format
  • 7.1. Graph profile
    • 7.1.1. Target information
    • 7.1.2. Optimisation information
    • 7.1.3. Graph information
    • 7.1.4. Vertex types
    • 7.1.5. Compute sets
    • 7.1.6. Exchanges
    • 7.1.7. Program structure
    • 7.1.8. Memory use
      • Memory per tile
      • Memory by category
      • Memory by compute set
      • Memory by vertex type
  • 7.2. Execution profile
    • 7.2.1. Profiler mode
    • 7.2.2. Program trace information
    • 7.2.3. Simulation information
• 8. Trademarks & copyright