Cloud TPU v4: Fast, flexible, and easy-to-use ML accelerators

Cloud TPUs are enabling faster training of machine learning models and more flexible use cases, such as NLP as well as easy-to-use APIs. With the new Cloud TPU v4 and the new TPU VM experience you can now use TensorFlow, JAX, and PyTorch to train your machine learning models as if you have a super computer with up to an exaflop of power under your desk.

Resources:

Speaker:
Shauheen Zahirazami (Software Engineering Manager)

#MLCommunityDay

product: TensorFlow - General; event: ML Community Day 2021; fullname: Shauheen Zahirazami; re_ty: Publish;

[MrSchweppes]

Amazon will unveil its own AI training ASIC, AWS Trainium, in 2 weeks, so it will be interesting to see the competition between AWS Trainium, Google TPU v4, Nvidia, and AMD MI210 coming to Azure in 2022 Q1.

[hiramcoriarodriguez]

Is it going to be available on Kaggle? I mean version 4

[changeagent]

The s25 is said to have a single TPU v4 and I wondered what use a single TPU v4 would be on a mobile device? Thx

[mikiallen]

Thanks sir, but till now I never found one sole provider of theses services in your sector, including all other competitors like AWS, IBM ....etc, happen to provide a typical sort of compute, store, stream requirements all in one sheet say for a standard problem like weather forecasting in real time or sentiment analysis and call transcription in real time say within finance domain, though it may sound simple, but such simple steps could make a huge difference for the end-user of such services, I really want you to take the time and discuss that internally - if possible - with the rest of the team that you work with.

[DeepFrydTurd]

I am assuming i will need to pay for access to the hardware and the API

[MrSchweppes]

Does somebody know how much memory TPU v4 has?

[tmhanis]

Is it possible to use R instead of python?