Glossary of terms used on this site

Exascale10 I/O software, which forms part of the DEEP-ER I/O stack. It mainly provides new collective I/O methods and extensions.

EC = European Commission, the DEEP-ER funding authority.

Official EC website: http://ec.europa.eu/

EEP stands for European Exascale Projects. To date it is a lose cooperation of the first Exascale projects funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.

More on the collaborating projects: http://exascale-projects.eu/

An Exaflop are 10¹⁸ Floating point operations per second.

Computer systems or applications, which are able to run with a performance above 10¹⁸ Floating point operations per second. The aim of the DEEP-EST project is to develop an exascale-able prototype system. 

High speed interconnect technology for cluster computers developed by Heidelberg University. Product specific informatin is available here.