Glossary

Glossary of commonly used abbreviations and terms

• AMD

  Advanced Micro Devices. Computer microprocessors, MiGraphX GPU

• ARM

  Advanced RISC Machine. Compute Library CPU, low level optimized functions

• DLL

  Dynamic Link Library. Executable code dynamically linked at load time, allows them to be updated independently

• EP

  Execution Provider. Examples: CpuEp, CudaEP, TensorRT, nGraph, Intel OpenVINO  

• FPGA

  Field Programmable Gate Arrays. An integrated circuit that can be programmed or reprogrammed to the required functionality or application after manufacturing - used to solve any computable problem

• GPT

  Generative Pretrained Transformer. Language model.

• Hardware accelerator

  Unlocks low latency/ high efficiency for nn computations

• Jetson

  Mini computer. Powerful computer, IoT edge device

• OpenVINO

  Intel Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization. An Execution Provider that targets CPU, GPU, VPU, FPGA

• RTCV

  Real Time Computer Vision. For movies/live vision.

• TRT

  Tensor RealTime. NVIDIA Execution Provider, utilizes GPU, kernel operations, graph partitioning, cycle detection, mixed precision - FP32/16