Technical Glossary

Clear definitions of computing infrastructure terminology. From quantum computing to enterprise tooling.

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NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model for general computing on GPUs.

Control groups - a Linux kernel feature for limiting, accounting, and isolating resource usage of process collections.

An operational framework that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations.

The core component of an operating system that manages system resources and provides services to applications.

An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Non-Volatile Memory Express - a specification for accessing solid-state storage over PCIe.

A quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become correlated so that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.

The fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to a classical bit but capable of existing in superposition states.

Remote Direct Memory Access - a technology that allows direct memory access between computers without involving the CPU.

Specialized processing units in NVIDIA GPUs designed for matrix operations common in deep learning.