{
  "id": 573026,
  "title": "Using TPU instead of GPU",
  "url": "/competitions/byu-locating-bacterial-flagellar-motors-2025/discussion/573026",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-04-13T04:43:11.370226900Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>Hi Reader!<br>\ni want to know that data is very large and my RAM is overflowing, can I use TPU instead of GPU as it gives alot of RAM like 330GB. Is it mandatory to stick to GPU or CPU for competition notebook</p>",
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    {
      "id": "3177634",
      "postDate": "04/13/2025 04:43:11",
      "content": "<p>Hi Reader!<br>\ni want to know that data is very large and my RAM is overflowing, can I use TPU instead of GPU as it gives alot of RAM like 330GB. Is it mandatory to stick to GPU or CPU for competition notebook</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Reader!\ni want to know that data is very large and my RAM is overflowing, can I use TPU instead of GPU as it gives alot of RAM like 330GB. Is it mandatory to stick to GPU or CPU for competition notebook",
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    },
    {
      "id": "3177706",
      "postDate": "04/13/2025 06:49:31",
      "content": "<p>You can train using a TPU but your submission kernel must be GPU based <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/danishghaffar786\" target=\"_blank\">@danishghaffar786</a> <br>\nTPU submission kernels are not allowed!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You can train using a TPU but your submission kernel must be GPU based @danishghaffar786 \nTPU submission kernels are not allowed!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3178197",
      "postDate": "04/13/2025 20:33:44",
      "content": "<p>This volume of data likely requires more processing time than the competition's allowed runtime. You can either reduce your training data or slightly lower the image quality.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This volume of data likely requires more processing time than the competition's allowed runtime. You can either reduce your training data or slightly lower the image quality.",
      "votes": null
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3177706,
      "author_name": "ravi20076",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/13/2025 06:49:31",
      "content": "<p>You can train using a TPU but your submission kernel must be GPU based <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/danishghaffar786\" target=\"_blank\">@danishghaffar786</a> <br>\nTPU submission kernels are not allowed!</p>",
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    },
    {
      "id": 3178197,
      "author_name": "ali78kabirzadeh",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/13/2025 20:33:44",
      "content": "<p>This volume of data likely requires more processing time than the competition's allowed runtime. You can either reduce your training data or slightly lower the image quality.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "3177634": "Hi Reader!\ni want to know that data is very large and my RAM is overflowing, can I use TPU instead of GPU as it gives alot of RAM like 330GB. Is it mandatory to stick to GPU or CPU for competition notebook",
    "3177706": "You can train using a TPU but your submission kernel must be GPU based @danishghaffar786 \nTPU submission kernels are not allowed!",
    "3178197": "This volume of data likely requires more processing time than the competition's allowed runtime. You can either reduce your training data or slightly lower the image quality."
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