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Re:Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs by n00b101 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:12AM (#12268855)
> Which GPUs they offer and how much, nobody knows.

They might not offer GPUs at all. It may be that Google is planning to build a cloud using their own proprietary "Tensor Processing Unit" chip designed for TensorFlow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit)

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Re:Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs by visarga on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:46AM (#12269170)
TPUs are only useful for prediction, not for training.
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Re:Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs by mikecb on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:26PM (#12269564)
Unless I missed something, whether or not they are for training or inference has not been clarified.
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Re:Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs by Eridrus on Thursday August 11, 2016 @01:08PM (#12269940)
They mention that they use them for inference in one of the TF papers; also the focus on per watt efficiency rather than speed/memory means it's probably for inference.
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