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It really boosts Google Cloud Platform with image and prestige, they're coming out with what is pretty much tensorflow as a service with their machine learning
by Krakulf 10y ago
It really boosts Google Cloud Platform with image and prestige, they're coming out with what is pretty much tensorflow as a service with their machine learning product.
Coming out saying they can give you a service no one else can right down to a custom chip may sway a few buyers in the market.
https://cloud.google.com/ml/ https://cloud.google.com/ml/
- hendler 10y agoFor me this is true. GPUs on Amazon are not cheap, and if google passes the savings on from performance power consumption I'd certainly offload some work to Google cloud.
- engizeer 10y agoThis is true - I've heard rumors that GCE has been trying hard to poach cloud consumers from other providers, this could be another stroke in that effort.
- manav 10y agoWell this also shows their commitment to Tensorflow if they willing to pay to fab custom chips for it. Then again, in the Google scheme of things that's probably not a huge cost. They've probably carefully modeled the energy savings over GPU/FPGA and found it to be substantial enough, even taking into account costs of design changes.
- vidarh 10y agoIf you need enough chips it doesn't take particularly careful modelling to say that you'll beat an FPGA quite substantially in most cases.
- vintermann 10y agoIt might also give Nvidia some sorely needed worries.