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 ===== CUDA =====
+  * Definitions:
+    * CUDA -- Compute Unified Device Architecture
+    * GPU -- Graphics Processing Unit
+    * GPU cluster -- An HPC cluster equipped with multiple GPU devices (rather than CPUs)
+    * GPGPU -- General Purpose GPU (i.e., not just for optimized graphics processing)
+  * CUDA is
+    * a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) model created by [[https://www.nvidia.com/|Nvidia]]. --[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA|Wikipedia]]
+    * more than a library for a programming language(s)
+    * an extension of C/C++ to allow programmers to use nVidia GPU cards for GPGPU programming
+  * hpc
+    * Vassar CS Department's GPGPU cluster
+    * webpage: https://hpc.cs.vassar.edu/  (accessible only behind firewall)
+    * hpc is a virtual machine (VM)
+    * uses Slurm (Simple Linux Resource Manager) to run jobs (interactive or batch)
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