Get full access to Artificial Intelligence By Example and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Optimizing speed with Google's Tensor Processing Unit

Exploring a unit-testing model represents an effort on our part. Now, imagine having to build a model that is 10 times this size. Training the model to find out where and why things went wrong may prove time consuming.

Google has come up with an innovation: a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Google Search, Google Translate, and Google Photos use a TPU to speed up computations.

Making that available to us on its data centers will make a difference. TensorBoard already has a key function you might want to explore while building a complex and time-consuming model. This function is the TPU Compatibility option on TensorBoard (see the following screenshot).

TPU Compatibility

Click on TPU Compatibility ...

Get Artificial Intelligence By Example now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now