title: IPU
text: # IPU
  
  IPU may refer to:
  
  ## Organizations
  
  * Inter-Parliamentary Union, the world organization of parliaments
  * International Peasant Union, a political international of agrarian anti-communist parties
  * Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, claimed by some ufologists to be a division of the US Government involved with UFOs
  * Irish Postal Union, a trade union
  * Irish Print Union, a trade union
  * Independence Party (Finland), Itsenäisyyspuolue (IPU)
  
  ### Schools
  
  * Indraprasta PGRI University, Indonesia
  * International Pacific University, Japan
  * International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany
  * Ishikawa Prefectural University, Japan
  * Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
  * Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India, formerly Indraprastha University
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Intelligence Processing Unit, a microprocessor specialised for processing machine learning workloads, pioneered by UK based semiconductor startup Graphcore
  * Interconnect processing unit, a compound hardware/software component employed in multiprocessor system-on-chip
  * Image Processing Unit, a processor for processing digital images
  * Infrastructure processing unit, a processor which can handle complex networking and infrastructure duties beyond what a traditional NIC would support
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * International Pop Underground Convention, a music festival in Olympia, Washington, US
  * Invisible Pink Unicorn, the goddess of a parody religion aimed at satirizing theistic beliefs
  * Integrated Police Unit of the European Union missions.
  