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Introduction to High-Performance Computing: Glossary

Glossary

The following list captures terms that need to be added to this glossary. This is a great way to contribute.

Accelerator
to be defined
Beowulf cluster
to be defined
Central processing unit
to be defined
Cloud computing
to be defined
Cluster
a collection of computers configured to enable collaboration on a common task by means of purposefully configured hardware (e.g., networking) and software (e.g. workload management).
Distributed memory
to be defined
Grid computing
to be defined
High availability computing
to be defined
[High performance computing](
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High-performance_computing&redirect=no)
to be defined
Interconnect
to be defined
Node
to be defined
Parallel
to be defined
Serial
to be defined
Server
to be defined
Shared memory
to be defined
Slurm
to be defined
Supercomputer
… “a major scientific instrument” …
Workstation
to be defined
Grid Engine
to be defined
Parallel File System
to be defined