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What is a GPU year?
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I am reading papers in machine learning and they say things like, "This computation took $x$ number of GPU years".
What is a GPU year? How long is that?
What is a GPU year? How long is that?
Solution
That means, one year of computation time on a single GPU (or half a year on two GPUs, or a quarter of a year on four GPUs, etc.).
If you are thinking of using this term in your own writing, I encourage you to also specify what type of GPU you are using. One-GPU year on a Tesla V100 GPU is a lot more computation than one-GPU year on a K520 GPU. The notion of "GPU-year" is close to meaningless if you don't specify what type of GPU was used.
If you are thinking of using this term in your own writing, I encourage you to also specify what type of GPU you are using. One-GPU year on a Tesla V100 GPU is a lot more computation than one-GPU year on a K520 GPU. The notion of "GPU-year" is close to meaningless if you don't specify what type of GPU was used.
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StackExchange Computer Science Q#116020, answer score: 30
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