Category

Compute Economics

These words describe the hardware and operating metrics that shape AI infrastructure economics.

How to recognize this theme

Terms you see when model serving capacity and cost matter.

In a daily board, this category groups terms by their shared role. Look for four cards that describe the same mechanism, risk area, or workflow rather than four words that merely sound similar.

Educational context

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GPU

A GPU is specialized hardware built to run many calculations in parallel.

Throughput

Throughput is the amount of work a system completes over a given time period.

Utilization

Utilization is the share of available compute actively being used.

Autoscaling

Autoscaling adjusts system resources automatically as demand rises or falls.