glossary.md

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
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS — Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I

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

L

• LUMI — Large Unified Modern Infrastructure

M

• MAC — Message Authentication Code
• MDS — Metadata Server
• MDT — Metadata Target
• MFA — Multi-Factor Authentication
• 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

• RAID — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
• 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
• TOTP — Time-based One-Time Password

U

• UI — User Interface
• UUID — Universally Unique Identifier
• UX — User Experience

V

• VM — Virtual Machine