Cloud
Under The Hood Of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters
As we previously reported, Google unveiled its second-generation TensorFlow Processing Unit (TPU2) at Google I/O last week. …
AI
Does Google’s TPU Investment Make Sense Going Forward?
Google created quite a stir when it released architectural details and performance metrics for its homegrown Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator for machine learning algorithms last week. …
Compute
First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture
Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. …
Cloud
Google Courts Enterprise For Cloud Platform
Google has always been a company that thinks big. After all, its mission since Day One was to organize and make accessible all of the world’s information. …
AI
Google Expands Enterprise Cloud With Machine Learning
Google’s Cloud Platform is the relative newcomer on the public cloud block, and has a way to go before before it is in the same competitive sphere as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, both of which deliver a broader and deeper range of offerings and larger infrastructures. …
Compute
Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It
There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones. …
Control
Wrapping Kubernetes Around Applications Old And New
Kubernetes, the software container management system born out of Google, has seen its popularity in the datacenter soar in recent years as datacenter admins look to gain greater control of highly distributed computing environments and to take advantage of the advantages that virtualization, containers, and other technologies offer. …
Cloud
Why Google’s Spanner Database Won’t Do As Well As Its Clone
Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. …
Cloud
Why Google Is Driving Compute Diversity
In the ideal hyperscaler and cloud world, there would be one processor type with one server configuration and it would run any workload that could be thrown at it. …
Cloud
Google Wants Kubernetes To Rule The World
At some point, all of the big public cloud providers will have to eat their own dog food, as the parlance goes, and run their applications atop the cloudy version of their infrastructure that they sell to other people, not distinct and sometimes legacy systems that predate the ascent of their clouds. …