Some Terminology - 8

Process - Fundamental entity of the software implementation on a computer system. A process is a sequentially executing piece of code that runs on one processing unit of the system.

Queuing - Method by which jobs are ordered to access some computer resource. Typically the batch manager will place a job the queue. A particular compute resource could possibly have more than one queue, for example queues could be set up for sequential and parallel jobs or short and long job runs.

Sequential Job - Defined as a job that does not pass data to remote processes. Typically such a job would run on a single workstation - it is possible that for a sequential process to spawn multiple threads on its processor.