Keyword | Definition |
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Central Processing Unit (CPU) | General purpose processor which may have a limited number of cores focusing on integer and logical operations |
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) | Highly specialised point processor which has many cores to perform many floating point operations concurrently |
High Performance Computing (HPC) | Using specialised hardware on multiple GPUs to solve complex problems such as AI, cryptocurrency mining and analysing massive amounts of data |
Parallelisation | GPUs can perform the same operation on multiple pieces of data at the same time (e.g. performing the same operation on each pixel of an image) |