<p>It's saying that if you're using a single GPU, the multiple processes attempting to use the GPU will be queued up and run one at a time rather than some or all being run in parallel. If you have multiple GPUs some of the processes can be run at the same time.</p>

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2018-12-18T08:33:28.627Z
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<p>With GPU isolation : multiple processes use the single GPU will be serialized, cause OOM easily
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<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Hadoop_Summit/deep-learning-on-yarn-running-distributed-tensorflow-etc-on-hadoop-cluster-v3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Hadoop_Summit/deep-learning-on-yarn-running-distributed-tensorflow-etc-on-hadoop-cluster-v3</a>
slide number 17</p>

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Can you give more context to your question? Is this a quote from some documentation? Can you link where you read it?
Nathan Reed
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What does GPU serialized mean?
THEGreatGatsby
# What does GPU serialized mean?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-17)

With GPU isolation : multiple processes use the single GPU will be serialized, cause OOM easily
link
<https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Hadoop_Summit/deep-learning-on-yarn-running-distributed-tensorflow-etc-on-hadoop-cluster-v3>
slide number 17

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Can you give more context to your question? Is this a quote from some documentation? Can you link where you read it?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-12-18. Score: 4

It's saying that if you're using a single GPU, the multiple processes attempting to use the GPU will be queued up and run one at a time rather than some or all being run in parallel. If you have multiple GPUs some of the processes can be run at the same time.


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