Skip creating and cleaning up TPUs if using a prestarted TPU

perfzero/lib/perfzero/perfzero_config.py

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ def add_benchmark_parser_arguments(parser):
       default=None,
       type=str,
       help='''A json dictionary of cloud tpu parameters. The format must look like the following:
-      {"name": "my-tpu-name", project": "my-gcp-project-id", "zone": "europe-west4-a", "size": "v3-8", "version": "nightly-2.x"}
+      {"name": "my-tpu-name", "using_prestarted_tpu": "true/false", project": "my-gcp-project-id", "zone": "europe-west4-a", "size": "v3-8", "version": "nightly-2.x"}
       It can have an optional key value pair "version_id" -> "nightly version" to change the tpu version id.
       Example "version_id": "2.4.0-dev20200728".
       ''')

perfzero/lib/perfzero/tpu_runtime_utils.py

@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ def _configure_tpu_version(tpu_name, version_label, new_version_id):
     logging.info('Trying to reset tpu version to %s', new_version_id)
     tpu_client.configure_tpu_version(version=new_version_id)
     tpu_client.wait_for_healthy()
-    logging.info('TPU healthy after version reset.')
+    logging.info('TPU healthy after version reset. New version id: %s', new_version_id)
   else:
-    logging.info('Using the default tpu version id.')
+    logging.info('Using the default or pre-started tpu version id.')
 
   workers = tpu_client.network_endpoints()
   if workers:

perfzero/lib/perfzero/utils.py

@@ -407,6 +407,11 @@ def setup_tpu(parameters):
   Returns:
     True if an error occurs during setup.
   """
+  # Skip creating tpu if using a prestarted tpu.
+  if parameters.get('using_prestarted_tpu') == 'true':
+    logging.info('Skip creating TPU since the prestarted TPU %s is being used.',
+      parameters.get('name'))
+    return False
   try:
     base_cmd = 'gcloud compute tpus execution-groups create'
     args = [
@@ -437,7 +442,12 @@ def cleanup_tpu(parameters):
   Returns:
     True if an error occurs during cleanup.
   """
-
+  # Skip cleaning up the tpu if using a prestarted tpu.
+  if parameters.get('using_prestarted_tpu') == 'true':
+    logging.info('Skip cleaning up TPU since the prestarted TPU %s is being used.',
+      parameters.get('name'))
+    return False
+
   base_cmd = 'gcloud compute tpus execution-groups delete'
 
   args = [