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NSCA Glossary |
Glossary
- CASEVision
- Computer Assisted Software Engineering environment for SGI computers
- checkpoint
- method for saving the state of a running job and useful for recovering the
good portion of a long job after an error
- dedicated job
- special batch job that is given the full resources of the computer (i.e., no
other non-system processes are allowed to run)
- HP
- Hewlett Packard with headquarters in Palo Alto, California
- HP-Convex
- Hewlett Packard-Convex, a division of HP that provides HPC systems
- HPF
- High Performance Fortran
- HPVM
- High Performance Virtual Machine, software that synthesizes
clusters of Windows NT processors into a high-performance environment; developed
by UIUC's Andrew Chien
- Insight
- SGI's hypertext documentation system
- IRIX
- SGI's version of UNIX, a System V variant
- lsbatch
- Load Sharing Batch system that provides batch job scheduling services
- LSF
- Load Sharing Facility, a suite of software for balancing the workload of
multiple machines
- MFlop
- one MFlop is equal to one million floating point operations per second
- MIPSpro
- class of compilers used to optimize and generate executables for the CHALLENGE
and POWER CHALLENGE architectures
- Motif
- standard graphical user interface developed by the Open Software Foundation (OSF)
- NTSC
- NT Supercluster
- NT Supercluster
- NCSA's Windows NT OS supercluster built from several hundred processors
of mass market PCs (Compaq Professional Workstations and HP Kayak workstations);
currently in beta
- PCA
- Power C Analyzer, used for maximizing parallelism in C code
- PFA
- Power Fortran Accelerator, used for maximizing parallelism in Fortran code
- PID
- Process Identifier; each process has a unique PID assigned by the operating system
- Pinpoint
- HP-Convex's X Window System-based online documentation system
- queue
- group of batch jobs classified by the quantity of system resources requested
(e.g., memory and time) and organized by the order of their submission to the queue
- SGI
- Silicon Graphics Incorporated located in Mountain View, California
- SPP-2000
- a cache-coherent, non-uniform memory access supercomputer
- SU
- Service Unit
thread
portion of a parallelized program that executes concurrently on a separate process
UniTree
NCSA's mass storage system
URL
Uniform Resource Locator, the standard for naming a document's location
(server and path) in the World Wide Web
WorkShop
set of CASEVision tools for building and analyzing programs.
Web
World Wide Web, a networked hypertext documentation system, accessed
through a browser (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, lynx)
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