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HPF High Performance Fortran, a data-parallel language
extension to Fortran 90.
HTML Hypertext Markup Language, a language for writing
hypertext documents in the Web.
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,the
world’s largest technical professional society, based
in the USA.
IMSL Fortran subroutine library for numerical and statisti-
cal computation.
LAPACK Linear Algebra PACKage, a collection of subroutines
for solving systems of linear equations and eigen-
value problems.
Latency The time that it takes to start sending a package
across the interconnection network.
Libsci Cray’s numerical subroutine library.
Malleable Malleable programs can be run on any number of
processors, specified at execution by the command
mpprun.
Message passing A communication technique between parallel pro-
cesses where the data transfer from the local memory
of one process to the local memory of another re-
quires operations to be performed by both processes.
Microkernel An operating system design which puts emphasis on
small modules that implement the basic features of
the system kernel and can be flexibly configured.
MIMD Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data, a parallel com-
puter architecture or programming style where many
functional units perform different operations on dif-
ferent data.
MPI Message Passing Interface, a standardized and
portable de facto standard message-passing library.
NAG Fortran subroutine library for numerical computa-
tion.
Netlib An Internet archive accessed through e-mail to obtain,
e.g., subroutine libraries.
Node Processing element plus the interconnection network
components.
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