ct6e-standard-1t by Google Cloud Platform

An accelerator-equipped virtual machine featuring dedicated host resources and an integrated TPU for cost-efficient machine learning inference workloads.

Google Cloud Platform ct6e-standard-1t is a specialized virtual machine configured with 44 dedicated x86_64 vCPUs and 176.0 GB of system memory, yielding a balanced 4.0 GB of RAM per core. The instance features a single integrated ct6e hardware accelerator, also identified as a Google V6 lite TPU, designed to support machine learning workloads. It does not include local storage, requiring network-attached storage solutions, and provides zero complimentary public IPv4 addresses. While advanced CPU instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX are unavailable, the dedicated CPU allocation ensures consistent host performance. This instance is optimized for machine learning inference, data preprocessing, and light model training, offering a cost-effective entry point into TPU-accelerated computing without the overhead of larger, multi-GPU configurations.