We assume the reader has already created a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user or organization account and an associated project.
We also assume the reader to have the Google Cloud CLI installed. If not, please follow the links right after to install and setup.
In order to create your initial TPU instance, you will need to provide some information:
Overall, the end command looks like this:
gcloud compute tpus tpu-vm create <ref_instance_name> \ --zone=<deploiment_zone> \ --accelerator-type=<target_tpu_generation> \ --version=<runtime_version>
In our case, we will be deploying a v5litepod-8
instance name optimum-tpu-get-started
in the GCP region us-west4-a
using the latest v2-alpha-tpuv5-lite
runtime version.
Of course, feel free to adjust all these parameters to the one that match with your usage and quotas.
Before creating the instance, please make sure to install gcloud alpha component
as it is required to be able to
target TPUv5 VMs: gcloud components install alpha
gcloud alpha compute tpus tpu-vm create optimum-tpu-get-started \ --zone=us-west4-a \ --accelerator-type=v5litepod-8 \ --version=v2-alpha-tpuv5-lite
gcloud compute tpus tpu-vm ssh <ref_instance_name> --zone=<deployment_zone> $ >
In the example above deploying v5litepod-8 it would be something like:
gcloud compute tpus tpu-vm ssh optimum-tpu-get-started --zone=us-west4-a $ >
This is used to get information about the tpu-vm for example its external IP:
gcloud compute tpus tpu-vm describe --zone=<tpu_zone> <tpu_name>