Optimising AI Performance with Graphcore PopVision Analysis Tools

Graphcore has released significant new features for the PopVisionTM family of analysis tools as part of a major Poplar software stack update, Poplar SDK 2.0. We created the PopVision Graph Analyser and System Analyser to help developers maximise the performance of their applications on IPU systems. To mark this update, we are looking at how PopVision tools can be used most effectively to inform and optimise machine learning programs. With its massively parallel architecture, the IPU has been specifically built from the ground up for machine intelligence workloads and is therefore able to deliver state of the art performance across even the most complex AI models. For this reason, many of our users are usually not just looking to run standard machine intelligence models, but to exploit the highest possible performance from IPU systems, beyond what they have been able to achieve with other systems.