GPU

Elastx offers GPU server hosting for AI, machine learning, data analytics and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads hosted entirely in Swedish data centers with full regulatory compliance and Swedish digital sovereignty. Our GPU instances handle the massive parallel calculations AI models require, cutting training times from days to hours and enabling real-time inference for use cases like image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving.

Elastx offers GPU server hosting with a number of different GPU models in our OpenStack IaaS and Kubernetes CaaS to match the required performance and capacity.

What is a GPU?

A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed to accelerate the rendering of images and videos for computer displays. Unlike a Central Processing Unit (CPU), which typically has a few powerful cores optimized for sequential processing, a GPU is built with thousands of smaller, more specialized cores. This architectural difference allows GPUs to perform a massive number of calculations simultaneously — parallel processing.

This ability makes GPUs exceptionally well-suited for AI workloads, particularly machine learning and deep learning. AI models, especially deep neural networks, involve vast amounts of matrix multiplications and other linear algebra operations that can be broken down into numerous independent, simple calculations. A GPU can distribute these calculations across its thousands of cores, executing them concurrently.