How deeply does Deep Learning with JAX cover TPU?

Explains Cloud TPU connection, installation, backend checks, and device inspection, while deferring full preparation details to Appendix C.

TPU

As explained in Deep Learning with JAX

A tensor processing unit hardware backend used to accelerate machine-learning computations.

A TPU is a hardware backend for accelerating JAX computations. It is usually unnecessary for small image-processing tasks, but can benefit training large neural networks. JAX lets you switch later from a local CPU or GPU to a TPU. section 3.2.5

Working with a Cloud TPU involves:

Creating a Cloud TPU VM, connecting to it from Colab through a local runtime, and installing the TPU-enabled JAX package. section 3.2.5
Accounting for cost and avoiding the older Colab TPU runtime, which JAX no longer supports since version 0.4. section 3.2.5

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