Graphics Processing Unit - specialized hardware designed for parallel processing that accelerates AI training and graphics rendering. Like having thousands of workers doing calculations simultaneously instead of one at a time.
Training large AI models on GPUs can be 100x faster than using regular CPUs because GPUs can process many calculations at once.
All major clouds provide GPUs primarily through virtual machine offerings. AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI let you run GPU-backed instances/VMs for AI/ML training, inference, and graphics workloads. The main differences are available GPU models, instance families, networking/storage options, and regional availability.
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