Getting Started

Run Your First Federated Learning Experiment in 10 Minutes

Welcome to Manta! This streamlined guide gets you from zero to running a complete federated learning experiment as quickly as possible.

🚀 3-Step Quick Start

1. Platform Access
Get credentials (2 min)
2. Cluster Setup
Start nodes (3 min)
3. First Experiment
Deploy swarm (5 min)

The Essential Path

Step 1: Get Platform Credentials

🌐 Platform Access - Get authentication tokens from the web dashboard

Step 2: Configure Your Cluster

🖥️ Cluster Setup - Configure nodes and start your cluster

Step 3: Run Your First Experiment

🚀 First Swarm - Deploy federated learning with notebook workflow

Prerequisites: Python 3.9+, web browser, internet connection

What You’ll Build

In 10 minutes, you’ll have:

  • ✅ Active Manta platform account with credentials

  • ✅ Running cluster with connected nodes

  • ✅ Complete federated learning experiment on MNIST dataset

  • ✅ Real-time monitoring and results visualization

This gets you ready to build custom distributed algorithms and scale to production.

Need More Details? See Core Concepts, Manta SDK Usage Guide, and Tutorials for comprehensive documentation.