GPU

or G.P.U.

[ gey-pey-oo, jee-pee-yoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

abbreviation for

(in the Soviet Union) the secret-police organization (1922–23) functioning under the NKVD.

GPU

abbreviation for

General Postal Union. See Universal Postal Union.

GPU

abbreviation for

Computers.

graphics processing unit: a secondary processor usually dedicated to performing the calculations necessary for producing computer graphics, lessening the burden on the main processor.

GPU

abbreviation for

State Political Administration; the Soviet police and secret police from 1922 to 1923

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Word History and Origins

Origin of GPU¹

From Russian G(osudárstvennoe) p(olitícheskoe) u(pravlénie) “state political directorate”

Origin of GPU²

First recorded in 1970–75

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Word History and Origins

Origin of GPU¹

from Russian Gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravlenie

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Example Sentences

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This model can run on GPU clusters in a research lab.

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The results are extraordinary: during flight the drone's deep neural network processes data up to 64 times faster and consumes three times less energy than when running on a GPU.

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That training will require lots of computing time, so Karpatne asked for 12 million GPU hours on any available machine.

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He wound up with less than 10% of that amount, some 750,000 GPU hours, on Summit.

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He’s been given 920,000 GPU hours on Frontera to do that.

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