Institutional development · Digital transformation, data and AI · United States
Purdue says it is first US university to deploy Google TPU AI infrastructure
Purdue University is working with Google Public Sector, Cirrascale and DDN to provide Google Tensor Processing Units for research by its faculty and students.
Why it matters: Purdue faculty and student researchers gain access to Google Tensor Processing Units through the university's collaboration with three technology companies.
Purdue University said it is expanding its artificial intelligence research capacity through a collaboration with Google Public Sector, Cirrascale and DDN.
According to the university, the collaboration supplies Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), specialised AI processors, for research by faculty and students.
Purdue described itself as the first university in the United States to deploy Google TPU AI infrastructure.
Editor’s view
Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor
Faculty and students at Purdue are the direct beneficiaries: if the TPU infrastructure is deployed as the university describes, their AI research will be able to draw on Google processors supplied through the collaboration with Google Public Sector, Cirrascale and DDN.
