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

NVMe provides lower latency and higher throughput than SATA or SAS interfaces by leveraging PCIe's parallel architecture. NVMe drives can achieve millions of IOPS and are essential for high-performance storage systems. NVMe-oF extends these benefits over network fabrics.

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GitOps

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

Qubit

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

RDMA

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

Tensor Core

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

Kernel

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

cgroups

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