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Re:Cloud TPUs in Beta by dharma1 on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:09AM (#16359041)
Do much deep learning training with the FPGAs?
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Re:Cloud TPUs in Beta by Cyph0n on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:24AM (#16359158)
Nope, but I'm sure others do.
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Re:Cloud TPUs in Beta by jongomez on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:27PM (#16360172)
Microsoft uses FPGAs for Deep Learning. Source:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/microsoft-brainwave-aims-t...

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Re:Cloud TPUs in Beta by twtw on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:08PM (#16360498)
... for inference. I don't know of anyone who takes training on FPGAs seriously. They tend to get crushed by GPU/TPU/other ASIC in throughput, perf/watt, and perf/$.
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Re:Cloud TPUs in Beta by p1esk on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:24PM (#16361730)
Training on FPGAs starts to make a lot of sense when you consider low bit precision computation (e.g. DoReFa-Net).
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