Why GPUs Are Flourishing in the Data Center - DataScienceCentral.com

Digital transformation is driving all kinds of changes in enterprises, including the growing use of AI. Though AI and data centers have existed for decades, graphics processing units (GPUs) in data centers are a fairly recent development. "GPUs have high levels of parallelism and can apply math operations to highly parallel datasets. CPUs can perform the same task but do not have the parallelism of GPUs so they're not as efficient at these tasks," said Alan Priestley, vice president analyst of emerging technologies and trends at Gartner. He believes that GPUs are best-considered workload accelerators that are optimized for specific sets of operations to complement CPUs.