Python Client for Cloud TPU

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Cloud TPU: Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are Google’s custom-developed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used to accelerate machine learning workloads.

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

  1. Creating a Google Cloud account and a Cloud TPU project.

  2. Setup Authentication.

  3. Read Cloud TPU Beginner’s Guide.

Installation

Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With virtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
source <your-env>/bin/activate
<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-tpu

Windows

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-tpu

Next Steps