October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Along with standard vCPUs, Compute Engine also offers Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These can be used on graphics-intensive workloads such as 3D rendering or virtual applications. We should note here that GPUs can only be attached to predefined or custom machine types and are only available in certain zones. They are also still eligible for sustained use discounts that we receive from standard vCPUs. When we are creating a new instance, we can add a GPU by expanding the CPU platform and GPU section, as shown in the following screenshot:

Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are custom designed using Google's experience in machine ...
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