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
• 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