NPAC Technical Report SCCS-629
High Performance Computing and Communications Glossary
Kenneth Hawick
Submitted July 24 1994
Abstract
This is a glossary of terms on High Performance Computing
and Communications (HPCC) and is essentially a roadmap or
information integration system for HPCC technology. The master copy
of this document is maintained online as hypertext, where cross
references are hypertext links to other entries in the document.
Some entries like that for BLAS software point to the software
source itself, available on the net from sites like the National Software
Exchange.
In this ``paper'' version, entry headings are in bold, and cross
reference entries are in italics.
The construction of this glossary is of necessity an ongoing process
in an active field like HPCC, and so entries will be updated and
augmented periodically. Watch for the version numbers. The master
copy is stored at the Northeast Parallel Architectures Centre (NPAC)
at URL: http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccgloss/, and NPAC's
main URL is: http://www.npac.syr.edu/. An
additional copy is also available in the Information Databases section
of the National Software Exchange at URL:
http://www.netlib.org/nse/home.html.