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andrewdb 8 hours ago

Why do we call them GPUs these days?

Most GPUs, sitting in racks in datacenters, aren't "processing graphics" anyhow.

xeonmc 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

General Processing Units

Gross-Parallelization Units

Generative Procedure Units

Gratuitously Profiteering Unscrupulously

incognito124 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Greed Processing Units

wartywhoa23 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is just brilliant!

allreduce 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes Gibberish Producing Units

jgtrosh 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

CompuHacker 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

  CPU = Compute
  GPU =  Impute
anthk 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

VPU. Vector/Video Processing Unit.