Accessing TPUs
Google has decided not to sell TPUs directly to others; instead, the TPUs will be made available via the Google cloud platform: Cloud TPU Alpha (https://cloud.google.com/tpu/). Cloud TPU Alpha will offer up to 180 teraflops of computing performance and 64 GB of ultra-high bandwidth memory. Users will be able to connect to these Cloud TPUs from custom virtual machines.
Google has also decided to make a cluster of 1,000 cloud TPUs available free of charge to machine learning researchers around the world, with the aim of accelerating the pace of open machine learning research. Access to it will be given to selected individuals for limited amounts of computing time; individuals can sign up using this link: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/tpusignup/ ...
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