IPU
# 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.
