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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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