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ironwood

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And the question is what do programs that max out Ironwood look like vs TPU programs written 5 years ago?

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Quick take

Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.

noun

Aegiphilia martinicensis

noun

Afzelia africana

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ironwood.

Example sentences

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And the question is what do programs that max out Ironwood look like vs TPU programs written 5 years ago?

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The Ironwood TPU that Gemini was trained on was designed before LLMs became popular with ChatGPT's release.

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There is at least one wood that does not float: ironwood.

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Google Ironwood (TPU v7) is roughly 12 months (generation) behind Nvidia in performance, but they get incredible savings in cost by having their own chips.

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I think they might have had early Ironwood access too?

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Corrections officers have strong unions with ironwood support from their legislators, so it is very difficult to get the executive branch in most states to care about anyth that pisses the unions off.

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These days everyone is running 4-bit at inference (the flagship feature of Blackwell+), with the big flagship models running on recently installed Nvidia 72gpu rubin clusters (and equivalent-ish world size for those rented Ironwood TPUs Anthropic also uses).

Quote examples

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To quote The Next Platform: "An Ironwood cluster linked with Google’s absolutely unique optical circuit switch interconnect can bring to bear 9,216 Ironwood TPUs with a combined 1.77 PB of HBM memory...

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“Ironwood” is a name used for a whole bunch of different unrelated tree species.

Proper noun examples

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Google is making its proprietary TPUs (Ironwood) available to Meta, directly challenging Nvidia’s 90% dominance.

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Ipe (Brazilian Walnut or Ironwood) has excellent resistance to penetration for standard lead rounds.

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Active vs total, also Ironwood/TPUv7 and Blackwell give much cheaper Q4 inference 8.

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How do you use ironwood in a sentence?

And the question is what do programs that max out Ironwood look like vs TPU programs written 5 years ago?

What does ironwood mean?

Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.

What part of speech is ironwood?

ironwood is commonly used as noun.