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We are offering Cloud TPU Quota for entrants in this competition! Requests can be made by submitting this form by December 16, 2019.
\n\nWith the upcoming release of TF2.1, TPU support with Keras is anticipated to greatly improve developer productivity while taking advantage of performance boosts that TPUs are already known for. The TensorFlow team is preparing tutorial information which will accompany the quota distribution. So if you've been curious about TPUs, now would be a great opportunity to give them a try.
\n\nThe fine print, also included on the request form:\n- You must complete the pre-requisite setup steps listed on the form in order to receive quota.\n- Only one person per team will be issued a TPU quota. This will be verified and multiple requests from the same team will be de-duplicated.\n- Be aware that if you are eligible, your request will be fulfilled by December 23, 2019, so you may expect to wait a couple weeks before receiving an email that confirms your quota has been provisioned. Distribution will not be immediate.
", "messages": [ { "id": 679398, "postDate": "2019-11-22T18:21:17.560Z", "content": "We are offering Cloud TPU Quota for entrants in this competition! Requests can be made by submitting this form by December 16, 2019.
\n\nWith the upcoming release of TF2.1, TPU support with Keras is anticipated to greatly improve developer productivity while taking advantage of performance boosts that TPUs are already known for. The TensorFlow team is preparing tutorial information which will accompany the quota distribution. So if you've been curious about TPUs, now would be a great opportunity to give them a try.
\n\nThe fine print, also included on the request form:\n- You must complete the pre-requisite setup steps listed on the form in order to receive quota.\n- Only one person per team will be issued a TPU quota. This will be verified and multiple requests from the same team will be de-duplicated.\n- Be aware that if you are eligible, your request will be fulfilled by December 23, 2019, so you may expect to wait a couple weeks before receiving an email that confirms your quota has been provisioned. Distribution will not be immediate.
", "rawMarkdown": "We are offering Cloud TPU Quota for entrants in this competition! Requests can be made by [submitting this form](https://www.kaggle.com/TPU-Tensorflow2-QA) by December 16, 2019.\n\nWith the upcoming release of TF2.1, TPU support with Keras is anticipated to greatly improve developer productivity while taking advantage of performance boosts that TPUs are already known for. The TensorFlow team is preparing tutorial information which will accompany the quota distribution. So if you've been curious about TPUs, now would be a great opportunity to give them a try.\n\nThe fine print, also included on the request form:\n- You must complete the pre-requisite setup steps listed on the form in order to receive quota.\n- Only one person per team will be issued a TPU quota. This will be verified and multiple requests from the same team will be de-duplicated.\n- Be aware that if you are eligible, your request will be fulfilled by December 23, 2019, so you may expect to wait a couple weeks before receiving an email that confirms your quota has been provisioned. Distribution will not be immediate.", "votes": 32 }, { "id": 699696, "postDate": "2019-12-20T19:24:18.360Z", "content": "Unfortunately I missed the window, any chance it will reopen in the future?
", "rawMarkdown": "Unfortunately I missed the window, any chance it will reopen in the future? ", "votes": 5, "replies": [ { "id": 700430, "postDate": "2019-12-22T02:16:26.003Z", "content": "I am also in the same boat. any chance I can get TPU?
", "rawMarkdown": "I am also in the same boat. any chance I can get TPU?", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 701738, "postDate": "2019-12-23T21:13:27.920Z", "content": "+1. I also missed this because I was in another competition which ended at Dec 20.
", "rawMarkdown": "+1. I also missed this because I was in another competition which ended at Dec 20." }, { "id": 701908, "postDate": "2019-12-24T03:24:11.313Z", "content": "Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the window has closed for the 2 distributions we completed in December as our teams are heading out of the office for the holidays. We may look to open up future opportunities, so be on the lookout.
", "rawMarkdown": "Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the window has closed for the 2 distributions we completed in December as our teams are heading out of the office for the holidays. We may look to open up future opportunities, so be on the lookout.", "votes": 2 } ] }, { "id": 701922, "postDate": "2019-12-24T03:49:30.090Z", "content": "@rahulsd91 The activation email would have indicated that the project you specified in the request form has been provisioned for TPU access. You may reach out to tfrc-support@google.com if you run into difficulty or want to confirm your access.
", "rawMarkdown": "@rahulsd91 The activation email would have indicated that the project you specified in the request form has been provisioned for TPU access. You may reach out to tfrc-support@google.com if you run into difficulty or want to confirm your access.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 700422, "postDate": "2019-12-22T01:49:26.123Z", "content": "I requested the quota a long time ago and haven't received it yet. Is that because of a delay or was I not eligible for it?
", "rawMarkdown": "I requested the quota a long time ago and haven't received it yet. Is that because of a delay or was I not eligible for it?", "votes": 1, "replies": [ { "id": 701905, "postDate": "2019-12-24T03:21:20.903Z", "content": "Rahul, you were provisioned access last week. You should have received an email notification. You may need to check your spam folder to see if it went there. If you don’t see it there, please reach out.
", "rawMarkdown": "Rahul, you were provisioned access last week. You should have received an email notification. You may need to check your spam folder to see if it went there. If you don’t see it there, please reach out." }, { "id": 701911, "postDate": "2019-12-24T03:31:12.930Z", "content": "Thanks for the response. I don't see it in my spam, I might have accidentally deleted it already. Wasn't expecting a google cloud email to end up in my gmail spam 😅
", "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for the response. I don't see it in my spam, I might have accidentally deleted it already. Wasn't expecting a google cloud email to end up in my gmail spam 😅 " } ] }, { "id": 699331, "postDate": "2019-12-20T10:15:20.507Z", "content": "I received it yesterday. Much thanks @juliaelliott
", "rawMarkdown": "I received it yesterday. Much thanks @juliaelliott ", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 726058, "postDate": "2020-01-22T19:04:50.853Z", "content": "A big thank-you to @juliaelliott, Kaggle and GCP. I have spent many hours using TPUs (sometimes 5 in parallel) and have learnt SO much from the experience. The opportunity to experiment with big models on powerful hardware in my own home at no cost is hugely appreciated.
", "rawMarkdown": "A big thank-you to @juliaelliott, Kaggle and GCP. I have spent many hours using TPUs (sometimes 5 in parallel) and have learnt SO much from the experience. The opportunity to experiment with big models on powerful hardware in my own home at no cost is hugely appreciated.", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 726601, "postDate": "2020-01-23T05:49:22.330Z", "content": "@kenkrige - Appreciate your curiosity and experimentation! We're excited to be able to increasingly offer TPUs to our users. We'd love to hear any details or recap of users' experiences with TPUs. Anything that others can leverage would be of great benefit to the community in using these resources in the future, particularly for a newer, lesser-documented resource like TPUs.
", "rawMarkdown": "@kenkrige - Appreciate your curiosity and experimentation! We're excited to be able to increasingly offer TPUs to our users. We'd love to hear any details or recap of users' experiences with TPUs. Anything that others can leverage would be of great benefit to the community in using these resources in the future, particularly for a newer, lesser-documented resource like TPUs." } ] }, { "id": 712495, "postDate": "2020-01-07T09:54:52.900Z", "content": "Do you know what kind of TPU can we use?
", "rawMarkdown": "Do you know what kind of TPU can we use?", "replies": [ { "id": 726082, "postDate": "2020-01-22T19:39:19.107Z", "content": "Depending on availability/capacity, it could be a mixture of v2's and/or v3's.
", "rawMarkdown": "Depending on availability/capacity, it could be a mixture of v2's and/or v3's." } ] }, { "id": 704385, "postDate": "2019-12-27T12:11:39.163Z", "content": "Hi Julia,
\n\nI successfully got the credits on offer for the competition, but GCP is not allowing me to increase my GPU quota from 0. I tried mailing them and working with their support, do I have any other options?
\n\nRegards,\nAashish
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Julia,\n\nI successfully got the credits on offer for the competition, but GCP is not allowing me to increase my GPU quota from 0. I tried mailing them and working with their support, do I have any other options?\n\nRegards,\nAashish", "replies": [ { "id": 704615, "postDate": "2019-12-27T18:01:20.743Z", "content": "Sorry, I can't offer any other options, as we are not part of the GPU allocation team. I'd recommend continuing to reach out to support.
", "rawMarkdown": "Sorry, I can't offer any other options, as we are not part of the GPU allocation team. I'd recommend continuing to reach out to support." }, { "id": 713439, "postDate": "2020-01-08T09:38:12.683Z", "content": "Thank you Julia.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thank you Julia." } ] }, { "id": 696078, "postDate": "2019-12-16T05:02:32.243Z", "content": "Can I use any type of TPU? like v3
", "rawMarkdown": "Can I use any type of TPU? like v3", "replies": [ { "id": 713466, "postDate": "2020-01-08T10:01:07.917Z", "content": "It's only TPU v3-8..and the zone specified in the welcome email
", "rawMarkdown": "It's only TPU v3-8..and the zone specified in the welcome email" } ] }, { "id": 692712, "postDate": "2019-12-11T16:49:01.403Z", "content": "I submitted a request for the TPU Quota two days ago. After that, I merged with another team and the teamname is different from the name I filled in in the application. Will that work?
", "rawMarkdown": "I submitted a request for the TPU Quota two days ago. After that, I merged with another team and the teamname is different from the name I filled in in the application. Will that work? " }, { "id": 691455, "postDate": "2019-12-10T06:51:20.557Z", "content": "I saw the free TPU Quota is offered first-come, first serve. So has anyone received the Quota?
", "rawMarkdown": "I saw the free TPU Quota is offered first-come, first serve. So has anyone received the Quota? ", "replies": [ { "id": 691458, "postDate": "2019-12-10T06:57:59.127Z", "content": "Yes, I have received it.
", "rawMarkdown": "Yes, I have received it." }, { "id": 691462, "postDate": "2019-12-10T07:02:48.483Z", "content": "I received it on December 6th, haven't you received it yet?
", "rawMarkdown": "I received it on December 6th, haven't you received it yet?" }, { "id": 692699, "postDate": "2019-12-11T16:30:28.647Z", "content": "I submitted yesterday. I hope there is still Quota left to allocate.
", "rawMarkdown": "I submitted yesterday. I hope there is still Quota left to allocate. " }, { "id": 692725, "postDate": "2019-12-11T17:04:14.980Z", "content": "Is there a limit to the usage of TPU Quota? Say a few hours a day or 100 hours in total for this competition.
", "rawMarkdown": "Is there a limit to the usage of TPU Quota? Say a few hours a day or 100 hours in total for this competition." }, { "id": 692977, "postDate": "2019-12-11T23:19:10.680Z", "content": "No time limit. However, it is very hard to use TPU in TF2.1 now, I prefer to use GPU this time.
", "rawMarkdown": "No time limit. However, it is very hard to use TPU in TF2.1 now, I prefer to use GPU this time." } ] }, { "id": 702725, "postDate": "2019-12-25T04:17:49.137Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true }, { "id": 681644, "postDate": "2019-11-26T11:23:25.003Z", "content": "'Cloud TPU-API turning on' costs $4.5/hour so we can spend all of our credits till receive answer, this is funny.
", "rawMarkdown": "'Cloud TPU-API turning on' costs $4.5/hour so we can spend all of our credits till receive answer, this is funny. ", "isDeleted": true, "replies": [ { "id": 682931, "postDate": "2019-11-28T00:45:48.070Z", "content": "This time, TF2.0 doesn't support TPU, if we want to use TPU, we should wait until the TF2.1 release.
", "rawMarkdown": "This time, TF2.0 doesn't support TPU, if we want to use TPU, we should wait until the TF2.1 release." }, { "id": 683082, "postDate": "2019-11-28T04:21:18.443Z", "content": "really? do you mean we can't use TPU in this competition until TF2.l is released? when TF2.1 will be release? @juliaelliott
", "rawMarkdown": "really? do you mean we can't use TPU in this competition until TF2.l is released? when TF2.1 will be release? @juliaelliott " }, { "id": 683161, "postDate": "2019-11-28T06:40:17.377Z", "content": "It's not true, although the page which is currently linked looks not that clear indeed. Running a TPU costs 4.5$/h, but you don't need to run it - you need to enable TPU API support in the project.
", "rawMarkdown": "It's not true, although the page which is currently linked looks not that clear indeed. Running a TPU costs 4.5$/h, but you don't need to run it - you need to enable TPU API support in the project." }, { "id": 683287, "postDate": "2019-11-28T09:15:20.580Z", "content": "you're right, and i know that.\nthe real question i want to ask is \"dose TF2.0 support TPU?\", I can't wait to use TPU☹️
", "rawMarkdown": "you're right, and i know that.\nthe real question i want to ask is \"dose TF2.0 support TPU?\", I can't wait to use TPU☹️ " }, { "id": 683370, "postDate": "2019-11-28T10:58:33.887Z", "content": "Ah sorry Frank, I misread your reply. Yeah that's unfortunate for sure.
", "rawMarkdown": "Ah sorry Frank, I misread your reply. Yeah that's unfortunate for sure.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 683375, "postDate": "2019-11-28T11:08:08.690Z", "content": "TF2.0 doesn't support for TPU now, if you really want to use TPU this time, you can use TF1.4 to train the model and convert the ckpt file into tf2.0.
", "rawMarkdown": "TF2.0 doesn't support for TPU now, if you really want to use TPU this time, you can use TF1.4 to train the model and convert the ckpt file into tf2.0.", "votes": 2 }, { "id": 683403, "postDate": "2019-11-28T11:52:53.337Z", "content": "that is a good way.\nand i found there's a Pre-release version: v2.1.0-rc0 on github, GCP also provide a image of it:\n
i'm trying to use it.
", "rawMarkdown": "that is a good way.\nand i found there's a Pre-release version: v2.1.0-rc0 on github, GCP also provide a image of it:\n\n\ni'm trying to use it.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 683433, "postDate": "2019-11-28T12:33:17.060Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true }, { "id": 683451, "postDate": "2019-11-28T13:02:24.897Z", "content": "But when I tried to create TPU node, there is no software support for TF2.1 now.
", "rawMarkdown": "But when I tried to create TPU node, there is no software support for TF2.1 now." }, { "id": 683473, "postDate": "2019-11-28T13:17:03.790Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true }, { "id": 692461, "postDate": "2019-12-11T09:36:06.213Z", "rawMarkdown": "\n" } ] } ], "comments": [ { "id": 699696, "author_name": "Xuan Cao", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-20T19:24:18.360000", "content": "Unfortunately I missed the window, any chance it will reopen in the future?
", "votes": 5, "replies": [ { "id": 700430, "author_name": "pramodh", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-22T02:16:26.003000", "content": "I am also in the same boat. any chance I can get TPU?
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 701738, "author_name": "Changyi", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-23T21:13:27.920000", "content": "+1. I also missed this because I was in another competition which ended at Dec 20.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 701908, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-24T03:24:11.313000", "content": "Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the window has closed for the 2 distributions we completed in December as our teams are heading out of the office for the holidays. We may look to open up future opportunities, so be on the lookout.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 701922, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-24T03:49:30.090000", "content": "@rahulsd91 The activation email would have indicated that the project you specified in the request form has been provisioned for TPU access. You may reach out to tfrc-support@google.com if you run into difficulty or want to confirm your access.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 700422, "author_name": "Rahul", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-22T01:49:26.123000", "content": "I requested the quota a long time ago and haven't received it yet. Is that because of a delay or was I not eligible for it?
", "votes": 1, "replies": [ { "id": 701905, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-24T03:21:20.903000", "content": "Rahul, you were provisioned access last week. You should have received an email notification. You may need to check your spam folder to see if it went there. If you don’t see it there, please reach out.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 701911, "author_name": "Rahul", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-24T03:31:12.930000", "content": "Thanks for the response. I don't see it in my spam, I might have accidentally deleted it already. Wasn't expecting a google cloud email to end up in my gmail spam 😅
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 699331, "author_name": "Rohit Agarwal", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-20T10:15:20.507000", "content": "I received it yesterday. Much thanks @juliaelliott
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 726058, "author_name": "Ken Krige", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-22T19:04:50.853000", "content": "A big thank-you to @juliaelliott, Kaggle and GCP. I have spent many hours using TPUs (sometimes 5 in parallel) and have learnt SO much from the experience. The opportunity to experiment with big models on powerful hardware in my own home at no cost is hugely appreciated.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 726601, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-23T05:49:22.330000", "content": "@kenkrige - Appreciate your curiosity and experimentation! We're excited to be able to increasingly offer TPUs to our users. We'd love to hear any details or recap of users' experiences with TPUs. Anything that others can leverage would be of great benefit to the community in using these resources in the future, particularly for a newer, lesser-documented resource like TPUs.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 712495, "author_name": "Julio Porto", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-07T09:54:52.900000", "content": "Do you know what kind of TPU can we use?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 726082, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-22T19:39:19.107000", "content": "Depending on availability/capacity, it could be a mixture of v2's and/or v3's.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 704385, "author_name": "Aashish Ghosh", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-27T12:11:39.163000", "content": "Hi Julia,
\n\nI successfully got the credits on offer for the competition, but GCP is not allowing me to increase my GPU quota from 0. I tried mailing them and working with their support, do I have any other options?
\n\nRegards,\nAashish
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 704615, "author_name": "Julia Elliott", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-27T18:01:20.743000", "content": "Sorry, I can't offer any other options, as we are not part of the GPU allocation team. I'd recommend continuing to reach out to support.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 713439, "author_name": "NMN", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-08T09:38:12.683000", "content": "Thank you Julia.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 696078, "author_name": "Chanran Kim", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-16T05:02:32.243000", "content": "Can I use any type of TPU? like v3
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 713466, "author_name": "SkyLord", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-01-08T10:01:07.917000", "content": "It's only TPU v3-8..and the zone specified in the welcome email
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 692712, "author_name": "XiaokangWang", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-11T16:49:01.403000", "content": "I submitted a request for the TPU Quota two days ago. After that, I merged with another team and the teamname is different from the name I filled in in the application. Will that work?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 691455, "author_name": "XiaokangWang", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-10T06:51:20.557000", "content": "I saw the free TPU Quota is offered first-come, first serve. So has anyone received the Quota?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 691458, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-10T06:57:59.127000", "content": "Yes, I have received it.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 691462, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-10T07:02:48.483000", "content": "I received it on December 6th, haven't you received it yet?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 692699, "author_name": "XiaokangWang", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-11T16:30:28.647000", "content": "I submitted yesterday. I hope there is still Quota left to allocate.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 692725, "author_name": "XiaokangWang", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-11T17:04:14.980000", "content": "Is there a limit to the usage of TPU Quota? Say a few hours a day or 100 hours in total for this competition.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 692977, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-11T23:19:10.680000", "content": "No time limit. However, it is very hard to use TPU in TF2.1 now, I prefer to use GPU this time.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 702725, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-25T04:17:49.137000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 681644, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-26T11:23:25.003000", "content": "'Cloud TPU-API turning on' costs $4.5/hour so we can spend all of our credits till receive answer, this is funny.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 682931, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T00:45:48.070000", "content": "This time, TF2.0 doesn't support TPU, if we want to use TPU, we should wait until the TF2.1 release.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683082, "author_name": "Frank Jing", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T04:21:18.443000", "content": "really? do you mean we can't use TPU in this competition until TF2.l is released? when TF2.1 will be release? @juliaelliott
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683161, "author_name": "Konstantin Lopukhin", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T06:40:17.377000", "content": "It's not true, although the page which is currently linked looks not that clear indeed. Running a TPU costs 4.5$/h, but you don't need to run it - you need to enable TPU API support in the project.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683287, "author_name": "Frank Jing", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T09:15:20.580000", "content": "you're right, and i know that.\nthe real question i want to ask is \"dose TF2.0 support TPU?\", I can't wait to use TPU☹️
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683370, "author_name": "Konstantin Lopukhin", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T10:58:33.887000", "content": "Ah sorry Frank, I misread your reply. Yeah that's unfortunate for sure.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683375, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T11:08:08.690000", "content": "TF2.0 doesn't support for TPU now, if you really want to use TPU this time, you can use TF1.4 to train the model and convert the ckpt file into tf2.0.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683403, "author_name": "Frank Jing", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T11:52:53.337000", "content": "that is a good way.\nand i found there's a Pre-release version: v2.1.0-rc0 on github, GCP also provide a image of it:\n
i'm trying to use it.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683433, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T12:33:17.060000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683451, "author_name": "Zhiyu Guo", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T13:02:24.897000", "content": "But when I tried to create TPU node, there is no software support for TF2.1 now.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 683473, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-11-28T13:17:03.790000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 692461, "author_name": "Ranko Mosic", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2019-12-11T09:36:06.213000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "679398": "We are offering Cloud TPU Quota for entrants in this competition! Requests can be made by [submitting this form](https://www.kaggle.com/TPU-Tensorflow2-QA) by December 16, 2019.\n\nWith the upcoming release of TF2.1, TPU support with Keras is anticipated to greatly improve developer productivity while taking advantage of performance boosts that TPUs are already known for. The TensorFlow team is preparing tutorial information which will accompany the quota distribution. So if you've been curious about TPUs, now would be a great opportunity to give them a try.\n\nThe fine print, also included on the request form:\n- You must complete the pre-requisite setup steps listed on the form in order to receive quota.\n- Only one person per team will be issued a TPU quota. This will be verified and multiple requests from the same team will be de-duplicated.\n- Be aware that if you are eligible, your request will be fulfilled by December 23, 2019, so you may expect to wait a couple weeks before receiving an email that confirms your quota has been provisioned. Distribution will not be immediate.", "699696": "Unfortunately I missed the window, any chance it will reopen in the future? ", "701922": "@rahulsd91 The activation email would have indicated that the project you specified in the request form has been provisioned for TPU access. You may reach out to tfrc-support@google.com if you run into difficulty or want to confirm your access.", "700422": "I requested the quota a long time ago and haven't received it yet. Is that because of a delay or was I not eligible for it?", "699331": "I received it yesterday. Much thanks @juliaelliott ", "726058": "A big thank-you to @juliaelliott, Kaggle and GCP. I have spent many hours using TPUs (sometimes 5 in parallel) and have learnt SO much from the experience. The opportunity to experiment with big models on powerful hardware in my own home at no cost is hugely appreciated.", "712495": "Do you know what kind of TPU can we use?", "704385": "Hi Julia,\n\nI successfully got the credits on offer for the competition, but GCP is not allowing me to increase my GPU quota from 0. I tried mailing them and working with their support, do I have any other options?\n\nRegards,\nAashish", "696078": "Can I use any type of TPU? like v3", "692712": "I submitted a request for the TPU Quota two days ago. After that, I merged with another team and the teamname is different from the name I filled in in the application. Will that work? ", "691455": "I saw the free TPU Quota is offered first-come, first serve. So has anyone received the Quota? ", "702725": "", "681644": "'Cloud TPU-API turning on' costs $4.5/hour so we can spend all of our credits till receive answer, this is funny. " } }