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Is there released documentation on the instruction set of the Google Cloud TPU?



They list the main ones on pages 3-4 of this paper:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk...

It's mainly moving memory around, matrix multiplication, convolution, and applying activation functions (sigmoid, tanh, relu, etc.). Very simple, high-level stuff. This has the handy side-effect of making timing very predictable, which makes the latency a lot more deterministic.




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