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

Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the standard for container orchestration. It provides declarative configuration, self-healing, horizontal scaling, and service discovery. Key components include pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

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cgroups

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

CUDA

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

Tensor Core

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

RDMA

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

NVMe

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

Kernel

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