ct5l-hightpu-8t by Google Cloud Platform
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(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | gcp |
Server ID | 1740003 |
Name | ct5l-hightpu-8t |
Description | 224 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM, 8 Google TPUs |
Family | ct5l |
Hw Virt | - |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-10-24T19:11:45.860759 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1 | 2.8746 USD/h | 9.6 USD/h |
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4 | 4.7241 USD/h | 12.48 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 224 |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 384 GiB |
| ACCELERATORS | |
|---|---|
Accelerator Count | 8 |
Accelerator Memory Min | 16 GiB |
Accelerator Memory Total | 128 GiB |
Accelerator Type | TPU |
Accelerator Manufacturer | Google |
Accelerator Family | TPU |
Accelerator Model | v5e |
Accelerators |
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| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A high-density accelerator instance featuring eight integrated TPUs and dedicated vCPUs for parallelized machine learning workloads.
Google Cloud Platform ct5l-hightpu-8t is an accelerator-optimized server instance designed for highly parallelized workloads. It features 224 dedicated x86_64 vCPUs, 384 GB of system memory, and eight integrated Google TPU v5e accelerators with a total of 128 GB of VRAM. With a memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1.71 GB per core and no local storage, the hardware profile is engineered to maximize compute density and accelerator throughput. Qualitatively, the instance offers a specialized resource balance that minimizes CPU overhead by offloading intensive mathematical operations directly to the TPU cluster. This configuration is suited for machine learning model training, deep learning inference, and large-scale artificial intelligence workloads.
Economics
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | Accelerators |
|---|---|---|---|
| ct5l-hightpu-1t | 24 | 48 GiB | 1 |
| ct5l-hightpu-4t | 112 | 192 GiB | 4 |
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