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

Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the standard for container orchestration. It provides declarative configuration, self-healing, horizontal scaling, and service discovery. Key components include pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

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RDMA

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

Kernel

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

CUDA

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

cgroups

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

NVMe

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

Qubit

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