Jump toUpdate content
GPU Instances - Concepts
GPU Instances share many concepts in common with traditional Instances. See also the Instances Concepts page for more information.
Docker
Docker is a platform as a service (PaaS) tool, that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Scaleway provides a number of pre-built Docker images, which allow you to run a Docker container on your GPU Instance and access a pre-installed Pipenv environment ideal for your AI projects.
GPU
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) became a go-to term for the specialized electronic circuits, designed to power graphics on a machine. The term was popularized in the late 1990s by the chip manufacturer NVIDIA. GPUs were originally produced primarily to drive high-quality gaming experiences, producing life-like digital graphics. Today, those capabilities are being harnessed more broadly for data processing, articificial intelligence, rendering and video encoding.
Nvidia
Nvidia is a brand of GPU for the gaming and professional markets. Scaleway GPU Instances are equipped with NVidia GPUs.
Pipenv
Pipenv is a package and dependency manager for Python projects. It harnesses the power of different existing tools, bringing their functionalities together:
pip
for Python package managementpyenv
for Python version managementVirtualenv
for creating different virtual Python environmentsPipfile
for managing project dependencies
Pipenv is pre-installed on all of Scaleway’s AI Docker images for GPU Instances, making it easy to use virtual environments. Pipenv replaces Anaconda for this purpose.