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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 s

by 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