Glossary
Term | Definition |
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I/O System | |
iPic3D | Programming code developed by the University of Leuven to simulate space weather. |
KNC | Knights Corner is the code name of an Intel processor based on the MIC architecture. Its commercial name is Intel® Xeon Phi TM. |
KNL | Knights Landing, second generation of Intel® Xeon PhiTM. |
MIC | Intel Many Integrated Core architecture |
MPI | MPI is short for Message Passing Interface, an API specification typically used in parallel programs. It allows processes to communicate with one another by sending and receiving messages. |
NAM | |
NVM | |
OmpSs | OmpSs is the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre's Superscalar (Ss) for OpenMP. It is the programming model used in DEEP and DEEP-ER. You can find more information on OmpSs here: https://pm.bsc.es/ompss |
ParaStation MPI | |
Petaflop | Petaflop, 1015 Floating point operations per second |
Prototype | |
SIONlib | SIONlib is a parallel I/O library that enables large-scale parallel applications to perform efficient parallel I/O to task local files. The software is developed by project partner Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Detailed information on SIONlib can be found here: http://www.fz-juelich.de/SIONlib |
TurboRVB | Quantum Monte Carlo Software for electronic structure calculations developed by SISSA. |