Research and watch basic intro videos on how GPUs and how they work

IBM Intro Video

What is a GPU

• Graphics Processing Unit
• CPU →only a few cores
  • Serial computation
  • App code to the CPU
• GPUs →hundreds of cores
  • Parallel computation →all at once, very intense computations
• Providers →AMD and NVIDIA
  • VDI →Virtual Desktop Infarstructure
    • High intensive graphics
    • 3D viewing
    • Rendering
    • Gaming
  • AI →Artificial Intelligence
    • Deep Learning
    • Machine Learning
    • Creating specifice applications
      • Create and train neural networks
        • Something a CPU cannot due on its own
  • HPC →High performance computing
    • Company's ability to spread out its computing power between nodes
      • Cloud computing, often depends on GPUs
• Why use GPUs on cloud?
  • High performance

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• Very good at certain forms of math
• 3D graphics → everything is triangles
  • Might need to be transformed
  • Using a vector
  • Or multiply by a scaling matrix
  • Needs to be good at floating point, vector multiplaciion, matrix multiplication
• Program shader
• Vertex shader
  • Runs once per frame
  • 3D end
• Pixel shader or fragment shader
  • Color texture lighting and shadows that are thrown
  • Controlls
  • Runs once per pixel
• CPU vs GPU
  • CPU is serial
  • GPU is Parallel
    • Multiple execution engines →execution cores
• GPU commuting
  • Task that has to be done highly in computing
  • Certain types of computer vision, types of of machine learning, etc
• 3D graphics on desktop vs phone
  • Power

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