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Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo... by amelius on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:27PM (#11726119)
There were no references to this TPU in the TensorFlow source code?
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Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo... by hedgehog on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:30PM (#11726144)
No but if you look at the code it's clearly designed to support pluggable hardware.
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Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo... by zenlikethat on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:29AM (#11728423)
Very interesting observation -- this seems so much more obvious in retrospect given the meticulous mapping of graph to devices outlined in the paper.
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