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Let's just leave this one alone then. I can't argue with someone who claims anything is possible, yet absolutely nobody seems to be doing what you're referring to (except you). A100 now tops all MLPerf benchmarks, and the unavailable TPUv4 may not even keep up.

Trust me, I would love if TPUs could do what you're saying, but they simply can't. There's no direct DMA from the NIC to where I can do a streaming application at 40+Gbps to it. Even if TPU could do all the things you claim, if it's not as fast as the A100, what's the point? To go through undocumented pain to prove something?



FWIW, you can stream at 10Gbps to TPUs. (I've done it.)

10Gbps isn't quite 40Gbps, but I think you can get there by streaming to a few different TPUs on different VPC networks. Or to the same TPU from different VMs, possibly.

The point is that there's a realistic alternative to nVidia's monopoly.


When I can run a TPU in my own data center, there is. Until then it precludes a lot of applications.




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