Re: [Computer-go] Google used TPUs for AlphaGo

2016-05-19 Thread Hideki Kato
DGX-1 looks not shipped yet. TPUs has been used more than 1 year. This could be a big advantage for Google. Hideki Darren Cook: <573da3db.8000...@dcook.org>: >> It's be interesting to know what the speedup factor against, say, >> Tesla K40 is. > >Or against the P100 chip [1], which claims

[Computer-go] Google used TPUs for AlphaGo

2016-05-19 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi, it seems that Google in fact used TPUs for AlphaGo rather than GPUs: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html It's be interesting to know what the speedup factor against, say, Tesla K40 is. In the Nature