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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by castis on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @08:37AM (#12635045)
What do you propose we call them?
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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by WorldMaker on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:11AM (#12636121)
Geometric Processing Units? The "magic" of this renaissance in GPU processing seems mostly to just be the (maybe unsurprising) versatility of Euclidean Geometry to a wide variety of problem domains.
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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by lifebeyondfife on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @08:54AM (#12635131)
Parallel Processing Units?
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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @09:26AM (#12635287)
Hyper-Parallel Independent Processing Units?

Standard Hyperparallel Integrated Technology?

I do so love fun with acronyms...

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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by jbpetersen on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:05AM (#12636073)
Vector Processing Units

It does a good job of communicating their main functionality.

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Re:Azure is becoming the first AI supercomputer, says Microsoft by n00b101 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:28AM (#12635768)
What do you propose we call them?

AIPUs

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