Accelerator
Also called: Hardware Accelerator
A specialized hardware device designed to speed up compute-intensive workloads such as AI training and inference by efficiently executing parallel operations.
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A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialized parallel processor designed to perform large-scale mathematical computations efficiently, making it the primary hardware for training and running AI models.
TPUTPUAn application-specific integrated circuit designed by Google to accelerate machine learning workloads.
CPUCPUThe central processing unit that executes program instructions and performs the general-purpose computations required by software applications.
CUDACUDAA parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for accelerating applications using GPUs.
Distributed InferenceAn inference approach that distributes model execution across multiple machines or accelerators to improve throughput, reduce latency, or support models that exceed the resources of a single device.