AI Term of the Moment
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Definition: accelerator card
(1) See graphics accelerator.
(2) A plug-in card that improves the performance of a desktop computer or server. Accelerator cards are used for cryptocurrency mining, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analysis and other compute-intensive operations.
Data Center Accelerator Card
(2) A plug-in card that improves the performance of a desktop computer or server. Accelerator cards are used for cryptocurrency mining, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analysis and other compute-intensive operations.
This earlier programmable accelerator card from Xilinx, now AMD, was used in data center servers to speed up operations such as machine learning. (Image courtesy of AMD.)