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

RDMA enables high-throughput, low-latency networking by bypassing the traditional network stack. It's commonly used in HPC clusters and AI training systems via InfiniBand or RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet). RDMA dramatically reduces CPU overhead for network operations.

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Qubit

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

Kubernetes

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

NVMe

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

cgroups

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

CUDA

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

Tensor Core

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