Accelerated Computing Academy

A new age of IPU-accelerated discovery in computing

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The Next Era of Accelerated Computing

Computer scientists in academia, research institutes, government labs, supercomputing centers and in business around the world are looking to solve today's most challenging problems through computationally intensive research. In order to build entirely new algorithmic applications across a range of fields, they require advanced computing systems.

The IPU is a new massively parallel processor with a unique MIMD architecture designed to accelerate the world's most compute-intensive data processing applications with a mature software stack to enable fine grained programming.

Parallelism

Processors

Memory

Memory Access

CPU

Designed for scalar processes

Off-chip memory

GPU

SIMD/SIMT architecture. Designed for large blocks of dense contiguous data

Model and data spread across off-chip and small on-chip cache and shared memory

IPU

Massively parallel MIMD. Designed for fine-grained, high-performance computing

Model and data tightly coupled large locally distributed SRAM

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Solving New Problems in Computational Research

The Accelerated Computing Academy is designed to support C++ computer scientists build entirely new applications that require highly parallel and high-performance compute.

This programme aims to help researchers advance their projects in new and unlimited directions that transcend AI and machine learning.

Whether it's simulation modelling, structural analysis, video processing, or computational finance, we're looking for new and novel ways to leverage IPUs along with our Poplar Software.

We're open to working with academia across multiple fields such as Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Data Analytics, Finance, Energy, Chemistry, Aerodynamics, Biology, Geographical Sciences, and more.