[unable to retrieve full-text content]Lots Of Questions On Google’s “Trillium” TPU v6, A Few Answers The Next Platform Source link
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Almost exactly a year ago, Google launched its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v4 chips at Google I/O 2021, promising twice the performance compared to the TPU v3. At the time, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google’s datacenters would “soon have dozens of TPU v4 Pods, many of which will be operating at or near 90 percent carbon-free energy.” Now, at Google I/O 2022, Pichai revealed the blue-ribbon fruit of those labors: a TPU v4-powered datacenter in Mayes County, Oklahoma, that… Source link
Read More »Testing Out HPC On Google’s TPU Matrix Engines
In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. The underlying hardware in a cloud would have a mix of different kinds of compute and storage, an all-to-all network lashing it together, and whatever you needed could be composed on the fly. This is precisely the kind of compute cloud that Google wanted to build back in April 2008 with App Engine and, as it turns out, that very… Source link
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