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    What is a GPU?
    What is a GPU?
    Updated on 29 Nov 2024

    Definition

    Graphics Processing Units – GPUs are processors that utilize parallel processing and high memory bandwidth to perform specialized tasks such as accelerating graphics rendering, simultaneous calculations, and processing. GPUs have become essential for applications like electronic gaming, 3D image processing, video editing, cryptocurrency mining, and machine learning. GPUs are much faster and more efficient than CPUs in handling large-scale computational tasks.

    Issue at Hand: GPU Usage Demand on Kubernetes

    With the advancement of technology, especially in deep learning models, the demand for GPU usage is increasing rapidly as technology companies heavily invest in AI. With the emergence of tools like ChatGPT and other language/image/video processing tools mainly relying on AI capabilities, GPUs showcase their strength. This is also why major technology companies want to use GPUs to meet the evolving AI requirements.

    GPUs significantly outperform CPUs in deep learning, especially during the training phase, which consumes substantial resources. In the GPU architecture, processing involves multiple cores and high memory bandwidth, making the deep learning process much more efficient than on CPUs.

    Combined with GPUs, Kubernetes is a suitable solution for AI. More data scientists are choosing Kubernetes to optimize AI model training and deployment for several reasons: automatic deployment, easy scalability, a diverse development community, and support for many features.