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I don’t know how’s the pricing, but maybe it’s worth building a separate server with second-hand TPU. Used server CPUs and RAMs are apparently quite affordable in the US (assuming you live there) so maybe it’s the case for TPUs as well. And commercial GPUs/TPUs have more VRAM

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second-hand TPU

From where? I keep a look out for used Gaudi/TPU setups, but they’re like impossible to find, and usually in huge full-server configs. I can’t find Xeon Max GPUs or CPUs either.

Also, Google’s software stack isn’t really accessible. TPUs are made for internal use at Google, not for resale.

You can find used AMD MI100s or MI210s, sometimes, but the go-to used server card is still the venerable Tesla P40.

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