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Glossary

A

  • AES — Advanced Encryption Standard
  • AI — Artificial Intelligence
  • API — Application programming interface
  • AVX — Advanced Vector eXtensions

B

  • BLAS — Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
  • BU — Billing Unit

C

  • CBC — Cipher Block Chaining
  • CLI — Command-Line Interface
  • CPU — Central Processing Unit
  • CTR — Counter

D

  • DBaaS — Database-as-a-Service
  • DFT — 1. Discrete Fourier Transform, 2. Density Functional Theory

E

  • ECB — Electronic Codebook
  • EtM — Encrypt-then-MAC

F

  • FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
  • FLOPS — Floating Point Operations Per Second
  • FTP — File Transfer Protocol

G

  • GCC — GNU Compiler Collection
  • GCD — Graphics Compute Die
  • GC — Grand Challenge (project)
  • GID — Group IDentifier
  • GNU — GNU's Not Unix
  • GPU — Graphics Processing Unit
  • GUI — Graphical User Interface

H

  • HPC — High-Performance Computing
  • HTC — High-Throughput Computing
  • HTTPS — Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
  • HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

  • I/O — Input/Output
  • IaaS — Infrastructure-as-a-Service
  • IaC — Infrastructure-as-Code
  • IP — Internet Protocol

L

  • LUMI — Large Unified Modern Infrastructure

M

  • MAC — Message Authentication Code
  • MDS — Metadata Server
  • MDT — Metadata Target
  • ML — Machine Learning
  • MOOC — Massive Open Online Course
  • MPI — Message-Passing Interface

N

  • NFS — Network File System
  • NVMe — Non-Volatile Memory express

O

  • OMP — Open Multi-Processing
  • OOD — Open OnDemand
  • OSS — Object Storage Server
  • OST — Object Storage Target

P

  • PaaS — Platform-as-a-Service
  • PBKDF1 — Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1
  • PBKDF2 — Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
  • PCIe — Peripheral Component Interconnect express
  • PCI — Peripheral Component Interconnect
  • PI — Principal Investigator
  • PME — Particle-Mesh Ewald
  • PM — Project Manager
  • PRACE — Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

Q

  • QLM — Quantum Learning Machine
  • QPU — Quantum Processing Unit

R

  • REPL — Read–Eval–Print Loop
  • RSA — Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

S

  • SaaS — Software-as-a-Service
  • SLURM — Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
  • SMT — Simultaneous Multithreading
  • SPoF — Single point of Failure
  • SQL — Structured Query Language
  • SSH — Secure SHell
  • SSL — Secure Sockets Layer

T

  • TLS — Transport Layer Security

U

  • UI — User Interface
  • UUID — Universally Unique Identifier

V

  • VM — Virtual Machine