GPU

¹

or G.P.U.

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

abbreviation for

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

GPU

²

abbreviation for

1. General Postal Union. See Universal Postal Union.

GPU

³

abbreviation for

, Computers.

1. 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

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of GPU¹

from Russian Gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravlenie

Example Sentences

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.

From Science Daily

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

From Science Magazine

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

From Science Magazine

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

From Science Magazine

For Shu Hu, a computer scientist at Purdue University, the chance to train his students is just as important as the 4300 GPU hours he will get on the Lonestar machine to train his AI model to detect fake images.

From Science Magazine