Supply chain / Accelerators
Google Cloud TPU
TPUs are accelerators Google designed for machine learning and rents through Google Cloud. They are used through GKE, TPU slices and pods rather than bought as cards.
- Type
- Company
- Where it sits
- A non-GPU accelerator you can only reach by renting from Google Cloud, with PyTorch, JAX and TensorFlow support.
What we checked
- Google's TPU page names Trillium (sixth generation) and Ironwood (seventh generation) as generally available, with TPU 8t and 8i listed as coming soon. (source)
- Access is via Google Kubernetes Engine, TPU slices of pods and Cluster Director. (source)
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