GPU
From Open Encyclopedia
GPU can stand for:
- Graphics processing unit, a special stream processor used in computer graphics hardware
- The State Political Directorate (Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie), the name of the secret police in the USSR in one of the stages of its development
- Global Processing Unit, a generic name for a distributed computing project
- Gnutella Processing Unit, a distributed computing client
- Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Главное Политическое Управление, or Main Political Directorate) of the Red Army, responsible for troops morale and propaganda.
- guinea pig units used in pharmacology
- Ground Power Unit, a device used on the ground at airports to supply aircraft without an APU with electric power. It is also used by aircraft with APUs if the airport authority does not permit the usage of APUs at its docks or if the carrier wishes to save on the use of jet fuel (which APU's use). The most common form of GPU is a small vehicle or trailer with a diesel generator although units fueled with gasoline are not unknown. There are also all-electric units that are powered off of the local electrical grid.
