MASAC IPU
MASIC IPU is a fork of the MASAC repository available at: https://github.com/ffelten/MASAC
The objective of MASAC IPU is to improve the MASAC efficiency by leveraging Graphcore IPU technology.
The library dependencies on the Poplar SDK 3.0 are the following :
# Install experimental JAX for IPUs (SDK 3.1) from Github releases.
import sys
!{sys.executable} -m pip uninstall -y jax jaxlib
!{sys.executable} -m pip install jax==0.3.16+ipu jaxlib==0.3.15+ipu.sdk310 -f https://graphcore-research.github.io/jax-experimental/wheels.html
!pip install --no-deps flax==0.5.0 # recent version of flax: AttributeError: module 'jax.tree_util' has no attribute 'register_pytree_with_keys_class'
!pip install gymnasium==0.28.1
!pip install wandb==0.12.8
!pip install pettingzoo==1.23.1
!pip install pygame==2.5.0
!pip install msgpack==1.0.5
!pip install --no-deps optax==0.1.2
!pip install --no-deps chex==0.1.5
!pip install dm-tree==0.1.5
!pip install toolz==0.10.0
!pip install protobuf==3.19.6
!pip install tensorboard==2.13.0Regrettably, the development is currently on hold as it lacks speed up when compared to NVIDIA GPUs. Nonetheless, there is potential for IPU to exhibit significantly faster performance when JAX+IPU will mature.