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

Tensor Cores perform mixed-precision matrix multiply-and-accumulate calculations in a single operation. They provide significant speedups for deep learning training and inference. Found in NVIDIA's Volta, Turing, Ampere, and Hopper architectures.

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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.

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.

GitOps

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

Quantum Entanglement

A quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become correlated so that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.