Glossary term
Glossary term
Infrastructure and Serving
A TPU slice is a fractional portion of the TPU devices in a TPU Pod. All of the devices in a TPU slice are connected to one another over a dedicated high-speed network.
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An ML platform team partitions a TPU pod into slices so several teams can train simultaneously without contention.
A research engineer uses TPU slices to share large pod resources across multiple smaller experiments.
An ML platform team uses TPU slices to right-size capacity for medium training jobs that do not need the entire pod.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License