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Control groups - a Linux kernel feature for limiting, accounting, and isolating resource usage of process collections.

cgroups enable fine-grained control over CPU, memory, I/O, and network resources for processes. They are fundamental to container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. cgroups v2 provides a unified hierarchy and improved resource management.

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Kubernetes

An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Qubit

The fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to a classical bit but capable of existing in superposition states.

CUDA

NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model for general computing on GPUs.

GitOps

An operational framework that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations.

RDMA

Remote Direct Memory Access - a technology that allows direct memory access between computers without involving the CPU.

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express - a specification for accessing solid-state storage over PCIe.