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checkpoint restore latency with multi-tier checkpointing on Google's 35K-chip TPU v5p workload — one clock inside MTTR

restore <1 minobserved

Value kindobserved — Reported measurements, counts, and specifications keep the precision and scope stated by their source; an exact specification is not treated as a range.
ScopeGoogle’s named 35K-chip TPU v5p checkpoint restore measurement is less than one minute. It excludes detection, fencing, allocation, worker launch and validation; not an end-to-end MTTR.
As of2025-06-16
SourceGoogle Cloud, Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs, 16 June 2025. · Multi-tier checkpointing architecture; restore operation on the named TPU v5p workload, separate from the complete recovery path.
Reviewchecking…review by 2026-09-07 · standard cadence
Recorded changeslast 2026-09-16 · 3 revisions tracked
Claim idmttr-achievable-with-multi-tier-checkpointing

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