Glossary
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- Accelerator
- to be defined
- Beowulf cluster
- to be defined
- Central processing unit
- or simply processor is the (hardware) component of a computer that executes the instructions supplied by a program (software). Most modern desktop computers have multi-core processors, e.g. devices with 2 CPUs are called dual-core, with 4 cores are called quad-core and so on. Each core is a separate physical implementation of the electronic circuitry required to execute instructions.
- 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
- to be defined
- Interconnect
- to be defined
- Node
- to be defined
- Parallel
- to be defined
- Serial
- to be defined
- Server
- to be defined
- 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