GPU
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly gpu
plural GPUs also gpus
: a specialized CPU designed to efficiently perform calculations for generating computer graphics
A GPU can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—
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Provide affordable access to computing power through GPU credits or cloud resources
Training cutting-edge AI models requires immense processing power in the form of high-performance GPUs.
—Victor Riparbelli, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024
Sony says these lower frequencies are rare and that unused power on the CPU side is sent to the GPU.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024
But, looming in the background is Nvidia’s next GPU, the Blackwell B200, expected to arrive later this year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
Tech companies that rely on GPU chips that help power AI applications, which are already in short supply, will likely be watching closely for potential impacts on that area of production.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Clark did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and estimated that a 10^25 FLOPS model costs about $7 million to train on the latest GPU hardware, while a 10^26 FLOPS model costs about $70 million to train.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Then there were the September and October bills, plus $1 million owed to Google Cloud and $600,000 to GPU cloud data center CoreWeave.
—Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new chip is what is known as a graphics processing unit (GPU) and is what powers language models used in AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Speaking of Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture—today the company also unveiled its B200 Blackwell GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
Victor Riparbelli, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024
Sony says these lower frequencies are rare and that unused power on the CPU side is sent to the GPU.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024
But, looming in the background is Nvidia’s next GPU, the Blackwell B200, expected to arrive later this year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
Tech companies that rely on GPU chips that help power AI applications, which are already in short supply, will likely be watching closely for potential impacts on that area of production.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Clark did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and estimated that a 10^25 FLOPS model costs about $7 million to train on the latest GPU hardware, while a 10^26 FLOPS model costs about $70 million to train.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Then there were the September and October bills, plus $1 million owed to Google Cloud and $600,000 to GPU cloud data center CoreWeave.
—Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new chip is what is known as a graphics processing unit (GPU) and is what powers language models used in AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Speaking of Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture—today the company also unveiled its B200 Blackwell GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
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