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The abbreviations used in this document are summarized in the following table.
ABBREVIATION |
DESCRIPTION |
VM |
Virtual Machine |
CV |
Computer Vision |
GPU |
Graphics Processing Unit—a dedicated hardware accelerator for graphics and neural network deep-learning and inference. |
vCPU |
Virtual Central Processing Unit. Each core in a multi-core CPU is a logical processor.as seen by the host. A logical core equates to a physical core or HT thread. A vCPU is a compute resource scheduled to a Logical Core. Each physical core can be seen as 1 or 2 CPUs by the host, depending on whether or not Hyperthreading is enabled. |
vGPU |
Virtual Graphics Processing Unit—a software abstraction of the physical GPU allowing the physical resource to be provisioned and shared with multiple applications or users. |