[brucethemoose2]

Paperspace gives free access to Graphcore IPU nodes (with 4 IPUs each), which is pretty neat. Theoretically that is way more throughput than a Colab T4 instance.

... But in practice, I tore my hair out trying to port an actual Stable Diffusion web UI, until I hit a wall. I needed to upgrade the "Poplar SDK" or something beyond the ancient Python 3.8 version to get things working, but the download was behind some kind of corporate login.

That left a bad taste in my mouth.

[lthom]

You can download their SDK without a login from their website here: https://www.graphcore.ai/downloads

[Reubend]

Glad to read about your experience, because I just checked out their website and was about to bite on the free IPU access. But if it needs some special proprietary software to work in the first place, I probably won't bother.

[brucethemoose2]

It is free to use, the issue is upgrading the software past what ships on the ancient Ubuntu image. The IPU Python library is tied to a specific Pytorch and Python version.

... And this might be better now, I have not checked recently.