▲ | frays 12 hours ago | |||||||
How can someone have this level of knowledge about TPUs without working at Google? | ||||||||
▲ | ipsum2 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Everything thats in the blog post is basically well known already. Google publishes papers and gives talks about their TPUs. Many details are lacking though, and require some assumptions/best guesses. Jax and XLA are (partially) open source and give clues about how TPUs work under the hood as well. | ||||||||
▲ | musebox35 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
From the acknowledgment at the end, I guess the author has access to TPUs through https://sites.research.google/trc/about/ This is not the only way though. TPUs are available to companies operating on GCP as an alternative to GPUs with a different price/performance point. That is another way to get hands-on experience with TPUs. | ||||||||
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