D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
3D |
three-dimensional |
ACI |
Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (NSF) |
aLIGO |
Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories |
BBH |
binary black hole |
BD Hub |
Big Data Regional Innovation Hub |
BLAS |
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms |
CC*DNI |
Campus Cyberinfrastructure—Data, Networking, and Innovation Program |
CCAM |
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing |
CCP |
Collaborative Computational Project |
CIF21 |
Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering |
CISE |
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
CMOS |
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor |
CPU |
central processing unit |
CSIA |
Cyber Security and Information Assurance |
DOD |
Department of Defense |
DOE |
Department of Energy |
DRAM |
dynamic random-access memory |
EB |
exabyte |
ECSS |
Extended Collaborative Support Service |
EU |
European Union |
F&A |
facilities and administrative |
FFRDC |
federally funded research and development center |
FFTPACK |
Fastest Fourier Transform in the West Package |
FFTW |
Fastest Fourier Transform in the West |
FLOP/s |
floating-point operations per second |
FPGA |
field-programmable gate array |
GB |
gigabyte |
GENI |
Global Environment for Network Innovations |
GPU |
graphical processing unit |
GSL |
GNU Scientific Library |
GTEPS |
giga-traversed edges per second |
HCSS |
High Confidence Software and Systems |
HDD |
hard disk drive |
HECIA |
high-end computing infrastructure and applications |
HECRD |
High-End Computing Research and Development |
HPC |
high-performance computing |
HPCG |
High-Performance Conjugate Gradient |
I/O |
input/output |
IOPS |
input/output operations per second |
IT |
information technology |
LAPACK |
Linear Algebra Package |
LSN |
Large Scale Networking |
LSST |
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
MB |
megabyte |
MKL |
Math Kernel Library |
MPI |
message passing interface |
MREFC |
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction |
MTDC |
modified total direct cost |
MUMPS |
Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programing Systems |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
NITRD |
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development |
NSCI |
National Strategic Computing Initiative |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NTT |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone |
OCI |
Office of Cyberinfrastructure |
PACI |
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
PAPI |
precision approach path indicator |
pARPACK |
Parallel Arnoldi Package |
PB |
petabyte |
PETSc |
Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation |
PGAS |
partitioned global address space |
PITAC |
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee |
PRAC |
Petascale Computing Resource Allocations Committee |
PRACE |
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe |
PSC |
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
PSPLINE |
Princeton Spline and Hermite Cubic Interpolation Routines |
R&D |
research and development |
ScaLAPACK |
Scalable Linear Algebra PACKage |
SCEC |
Southern California Earthquake Center |
SciDAC |
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing |
SCOREC |
Scientific Computation Research Center |
SDP |
Software Design and Productivity |
SEW |
Social, Economic, and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development |
SISI |
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation program |
SLEPc |
Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations |
SSD |
solid-state disk |
SU |
service unit |
TACC |
Texas Advanced Computing Center |
TB |
terabyte |
UPC |
Universal Product Code |
WAN |
wide area network |
XDMoD |
XD Metrics on Demand |
XRAC |
XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee |
XSEDE |
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment |
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