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Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo... by rcpt on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:30PM (#11726548)
> it's impossible to deploy GPUs at scale, let alone ASICs

A bit old but cf. DE Shaw and Anton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)

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Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo... by dekhn on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:34PM (#11727126)
I think the jury is truly still out on whether the anton designs are worth it (compared to commodity clusters/GPUs, etc).

and Anton wasn't really "scale" in this sense. It was a vertically scaled single (or several) machines.

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