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

cgroups enable fine-grained control over CPU, memory, I/O, and network resources for processes. They are fundamental to container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. cgroups v2 provides a unified hierarchy and improved resource management.

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CUDA

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

NVMe

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

GitOps

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

Kernel

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

RDMA

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

Quantum Entanglement

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