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), (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
  • Integrated Police Unit of the European Union missions.
  • Invisible Pink Unicorn, the goddess of a parody religion aimed at satirizing theistic beliefs
  • Isoproturon, a herbicide active ingredient

See also

  • Ipu, Ceará, a town in Brazil
  • Ipu, a percussion instrument made from gourds
  • Ipu (nurse), a royal nurse during the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt
  • Akhmim, a city in Egypt, ancient name Ipu