How-to Guides

How-to guides

• Setting up Google Cloud accounts and projects

  Setting up a Cloud Billing account and a project.

• Activating Cloud TPU APIs

  Activating Compute Engine and Cloud TPU APIs.

• Connecting to Cloud Storage buckets

  Storing your machine learning data on a Cloud Storage bucket. Giving your Cloud TPU access to data objects in the bucket.

• Cloud TPU VM user's guide

  Describes how to set up a Google Cloud project for using Cloud TPU VMs.

• PyTorch XLA user's guide

  Describes how to run ML Workloads With PyTorch/XLA.

• PyTorch XLA performance profiling

  Walks you through how to use Cloud TPU performance tools and the metrics auto-analysis feature with PyTorch.

• Run JAX code on TPU Pod slices

  An introduction to running JAX code on TPU Pod slices.

• JAX performance profiling guide

  An introduction to running JAX code on TPU Pod slices.

• Managing TPUs

  Setting up Cloud TPU or deleting nodes step by step.

• Using Cloud TPU Tools

  Monitoring Cloud TPU and model training using TensorBoard and command-line tools.

• Managing maintenance events with Cloud TPU Pods

  Understanding Compute Engine VM maintenance events and how to recover a Cloud TPU Pod after a maintenance event.

• Setting up TensorBoard

  Setting up TensorBoard to visualize and monitor the output and performance of your training application.

• Cloud TPU monitoring with Stackdriver

  Cloud TPU monitoring with Stackdriver. Displays logs and supports creating log-based metrics for the Cloud TPU runtime binary. Provides tools for creating dashboards and alerts based on log metrics.

• Preparing the ImageNet dataset

  How to download, preprocess, and upload the ImageNet dataset to a Cloud Storage bucket.

• Preparing the COCO dataset

  How to download, preprocess, and upload the COCO dataset to a Cloud Storage bucket.

• Using TPUs with GKE

  A guide to setting up Cloud TPU with Google Kubernetes Engine.

• Preemptible TPUs

  How and why you can allow Cloud TPU to preempt your TPU for usage by other workloads.

• Cloud TPU audit logs

  Accessing and using Cloud TPU audit logs.

• Cloud TPU version switching

  Switching software versions on your Cloud TPU.

• Shared VPC networks

  How to set up Cloud TPUs that use a centrally managed Shared VPC network.

• GKE Cluster with Shared VPC network

  How to set up a GKE Cluster with Cloud TPU configuration managed by a Shared VPC network.