[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.