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The core component of an operating system that manages system resources and provides services to applications.

In Linux, the kernel handles process scheduling, memory management, device drivers, and system calls. Understanding kernel behavior is essential for performance tuning and debugging system issues. The Linux kernel is modular and can be customized for specific workloads.

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

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

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

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Specialized processing units in NVIDIA GPUs designed for matrix operations common in deep learning.

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