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it sure does. I hope AWS and GCE will step up their GPU instance game

• jjallen 10y ago
  GCE should offer Tensorflow instances sometime soon. Closed alpha now. This will be a nice offering from Google which is no doubt part of the reason they open sourced Tensorflow. Which GPUs they offer and how much, nobody knows.
  • n00b101 10y ago
    > Which GPUs they offer and how much, nobody knows. They might not offer GPUs at all. It may be that Google is planning to build a cloud using their own proprietary "Tensor Processing Unit" chip designed for TensorFlow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit)
    • visarga 10y ago
      TPUs are only useful for prediction, not for training.
      • mikecb 10y ago
        Unless I missed something, whether or not they are for training or inference has not been clarified.
        • Eridrus 10y ago
          They mention that they use them for inference in one of the TF papers; also the focus on per watt efficiency rather than speed/memory means it's probably for inference.
  • dharma1 10y ago
    Nice. Would still prefer GPU instances I can do anything I want with