Python Client for Cloud TPU

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

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

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

• Read the Client Library Documentation for Cloud TPU to see other available methods on the client.

• Read the Cloud TPU Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.

• View this README to see the full list of Cloud APIs that we cover.