Acronym · Compute & AI Hardware
IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit)
Graphcore's accelerator architecture built from many small cores each with private on-chip SRAM, using bulk synchronous parallel execution instead of relying on external high bandwidth memory.
- Also known as
- Graphcore IPU
- Type
- Acronym
- Domain
- Compute & AI Hardware, Processor classes
Notes
Confusingly, Intel uses IPU for Infrastructure Processing Unit, a DPU-class device, so context decides the meaning.
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