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Re:Comparing Google’s TPUv2 against Nvidia’s V100 on ResNet-50 by elmarhaussmann on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:56AM (#16932420)
All of the computation, including pre-processing, is offloaded to the TPU. The weak machine is really just idling. A bigger one will only cost money and have no measurable effect on the performance.
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Re:Comparing Google’s TPUv2 against Nvidia’s V100 on ResNet-50 by KaoruAoiShiho on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:01PM (#16933079)
What is the cost difference between the CPUs on the google cloud vs AWS? How would adjusting for it effect the cost/images ratio?
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Re:Comparing Google’s TPUv2 against Nvidia’s V100 on ResNet-50 by shaklee3 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:27AM (#16932741)
This is why my previous comment mentioned that GCP is a better benchmark for this since you can select the number of CPUs to match with the GPUs to some extent. You can get a rough idea of the savings by looking at their P100 instances.
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