Glossary
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- Accelerator
- to be defined
- Beowulf cluster
- to be defined
- Central processing unit
- to be defined
- Cloud computing
- to be defined
- Cluster
- a collection of computers configured to enable collaboration on a common task by means of purposefully configured hardware (e.g., networking) and software (e.g. workload management).
- Distributed memory
- to be defined
- Grid computing
- to be defined
- High availability computing
- to be defined
- [High performance computing](
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High-performance_computing&redirect=no)
- to be defined
- Interconnect
- to be defined
- Node
- to be defined
- Parallel
- to be defined
- Serial
- to be defined
- Server
- to be defined
- to be defined
- Slurm
- to be defined
- Supercomputer
- … “a major scientific instrument” …
- Workstation
- to be defined
- Grid Engine
- to be defined
- Parallel File System
- to be defined