Questions tagged [ipu]
Acronym for Graphcore “Intelligence Processing Unit”. Use this tag for anything related to the IPU, including general purpose IPU usage, framework specific IPU programming, OS version compatibility, Graphcore tools (command line gc-tools and PopVision Graph Analyser). For framework specific IPU programming questions, add the corresponding tag: [poplar], [tensorflow], [popart], [pytorch].
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Building LLVM for IPU
I'm trying to install LLVM for IPU.
I tried to build as it is usually done for the chosen architecture
cmake -S llvm -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install_llvm/ -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=&...
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How to develop a model on a CPU before migrating
I am building a multivariate LSTM to model longitudinal data with pytorch.
I have installed Graphcore pytorch (3.1, which includes poplar and popart) and tools from docker. Rather than installing an ...
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How to use AutoML Library with IPU/TPU?
I want to use AutoML Library Autogluon with Paperspace IPU/Kaggle TPU instance for specification reasons (big RAM, big space, and fast training time). For IPU, when I try to fit the Autogluon ...
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Running stable-diffusion on graphcore IPU's
I have been looking for a version of Stable-Diffusion which would be able to run on the IPU's. Currently (due to the high availability) so far I can find CUDA based ones only.
Now I wonder if there is ...
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Basic IPU example crashes with ValueError: Expected a parent
I wanted to test the free IPU runtime on Paperspace, as such I made a free account and selected the HuggingFace + IPU notebook.
Afterwards I created the following very simple notebook with Pytorch ...
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Missing template arguments before '(' token in adder_cpu.cpp
I am new to IPU and I am running the tutorials from the graphcore.
When I run the second step to compile the program, I got the error.
Is anyone experienced with the IPU and graphcore know how to ...
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What does this error message mean 'pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Failed to parse string: ' ' as a scalar of type int64'?
I'm trying to use the following hugging face optimum model (see : https://github.com/huggingface/optimumgraphcore/tree/main/examples/text-classification ) and train it using my own local dataset. My ...
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Does anyone know what kind of logic gates Graphcore uses?
Does anyone know what kind of logic gates Graphcore uses for their IPU's? Specifically the GC200, not the server racks (MK2000).
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Are the PopVision System Analyser and Graph Analyser open source?
As from the title, are the PopVision System Analyser and Graph Analyser open source? I couldn't find them on Github so I'm assuming they aren't, but I'm asking here to be 100% sure.
The reason I'm ...
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Where is the V-IPU software?
I was reading the Graphcore documentation and came across the V-IPU software. The documentation says I can download it from the Graphcore software download portal, however I don't see it anywhere ...
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Porting pre-trained keras models and run them on IPU
I am trying to port two pre-trained keras models into the IPU machine. I managed to load and run them using IPUstrategy.scope but I dont know if i am doing it the right way. I have my pre-trained ...
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What is the meaning and purpose of the Linux /dev/ipu* device names for graphcore IPUs?
Why do I specify ipu4 and ipu4_ex both to use ipu device in docker like below command?
docker run --device=/dev/**ipu4**:/dev/ipu4 --device=/dev/**ipu4_ex**:/dev/ipu4_ex -ti graphcore/tools gc-...
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How can Poplar codelets include code from other header files?
Is it possible for codelets to reference code in other files, like header files?
If I have a codelet file
//FileA.cpp
#include "FileB.h"
class SomeCustomVertex : public Vertex {
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LLVM Error when compiling a model for IPU [closed]
I’ve been playing about with some of the Graphcore examples, specifically the TensorFlow CNN examples. I’ve been training ResNet with various command line options quite a few times successfully and ...
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How do I use the IPU Model with the Graphcore Docker containers? [closed]
I’ve had a look at the Graphcore documentation and it mentions the “IPU Model” that I can use without access to actual IPU hardware. So, I downloaded the Graphcore provided Docker images and there is ...
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