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# TPU Starter

Everything you want to know about Google Cloud TPUs
Everything you want to know about Google Cloud TPU

* [1. Introduction](#1-introduction)
* [1.1. Why TPU?](#11-why-tpu)
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**TL;DR**: TPU is to GPU as GPU is to CPU.

TPU is a special hardware designed specifically for machine learning, so it is more cost-effective to use TPU than GPU.

Generally speaking, TPU is faster. There is a [performance comparison](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/examples/flax/language-modeling/README.md#runtime-evaluation) in Hugging Face Transformers:
TPU is a special hardware designed specifically for machine learning. There is a [performance comparison](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/examples/flax/language-modeling/README.md#runtime-evaluation) in Hugging Face Transformers:

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After creating a TPU v3-8 instance on [Google Cloud Platform](https://cloud.google.com/tpu), you will get a Ubuntu 20.04 cloud server with sudo access, 96 cores, 335 GiB memory and one TPU device with 8 cores (128 GiB TPU memory in total).

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This is similar to the way we use GPU. In most cases, when you use a GPU, you use a Linux server that connects with a GPU. When you use a TPU, you use a Linux server that connects with a TPU.

### 1.6. How to apply for the TRC program?
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