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PyTorch: Getting Started
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If you are new to Cerebras, have access to Original Cerebras Installation and prefer to develop with PyTorch, begin with this quick-start guide before you get into in-depth development. It will introduce you to a typical user workflow on an Original Cerebras Installation.

The Original Cerebras Installation supports Pipelined execution only. You can run models that can fit entirely into the on-chip memory (below 1 billion parameters). 

For PyTorch models, Cerebras uses `PyTorch/XLA backend <https://github.com/pytorch/xla>`_.


.. admonition:: If you are ready to start developing / adapting your own PyTorch code for CS System

    Skip to `Workflow for PyTorch <https://docs.cerebras.net/en/latest/pytorch-docs/pytorch-cs-workflow.html#>`_ on CS for an in-depth development guide using PyTorch for Cerebras.



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