Glossary term
Glossary term
Infrastructure and Serving
A TPU resource on Google Cloud with a specific TPU type. The TPU node connects to your VPC Network from a peer VPC network. TPU nodes are a resource defined in the Cloud TPU API.
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An ML platform team provisions TPU nodes for short experiments and TPU pods for large production training jobs.
A research engineer uses TPU nodes during development for fast iteration on small models.
An ML platform team uses TPU nodes for evaluation jobs where a single node has enough capacity.
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