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
      • IPU-Link and sync configuration
      • 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. PopVision trace instrumentation library
  • 6.1. Overview
  • 6.2. Tracepoints
  • 6.3. Configuring trace options
  • 6.4. Channels
  • 6.5. Enabling and disabling trace
  • 6.6. Closing the trace file
  • 6.7. Python
  • 6.8. C++ API
• 7. Environment variables
  • 7.1. Logging
    • 7.1.1. Logging level
    • 7.1.2. Logging destination
  • 7.2. Profiling output
  • 7.3. Setting options
• 8. Trademarks & copyright