The Nvidia A100 GPUs and the use of AI in biotech (Compute Acceleration Part 1)

How the likes of Facebook and Tesla are competing with academia and biotech for the largest GPU supercomputers

From CPUs to GPUs

We are used to the term microchips or “chips”, for the elements coming off a silicon wafer that are “chipped off” and turned into the Central Processing Units (CPUs) of computers, or mobile phones, tablets, TVs, and more recently, cars.

But what are GPUs and why are they better at certain tasks than CPUs?

A graphical processing unit (GPU)…