Appendix F

ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

AEI

Albert-Einstein-Institut (Germany)

AFOSR

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AHPCRC

Army High Performance Computing Research Center

Al

Aluminum

ALD

Associate Laboratory Director

ALCF

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMR

Adaptive mesh refinement

API

Application programming interface

ASCAC

Advanced Scientific Computing Research Advisory Committee

ASCR

Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE)

ATC

Alcoa Technical Center

BER

Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE)

BES

Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DOE)

BG/L

Blue Gene/L (IBM computer)

BOINC

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

BVSS

Best value source selection

CAF

Co-Array FORTRAN

CAM

Community Atmospheric Model

CCSM

Community Climate System Model

CCT

Center for Computation and Technology (Louisiana State University)

CFD

Computational fluid dynamics

CISM

Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

CMB

Cosmic microwave background

CMPD

Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics

CNRS

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

COBE

Cosmic Background Explorer satellite

CPU

Central processing unit

CRD

Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CScADS

Center for Scalable Application Development Software

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DRAM 

Dynamic random access memory

EPSRC

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)

ERDC

Engineering Research and Development Center

ESP

Effective System Performance benchmark

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FES

Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (DOE)

FFT

Fast Fourier transform

FFTW

Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (C subroutine library)

FPGA

Field programmable gate array

GASNet

Global Address Space Networking

GBMF

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

GeV

Giga (one billion) electron volts

Gflop/s

Giga (one billion) floating point operations per second

GHI

GPFS-HPSS Integration

GPFS

General Parallel File System (IBM)

GPS

Global Positioning System

GPSC

Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas and Multiscale Gyrokinetics

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)

GTC

Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code

HEP

Office of High Energy Physics (DOE)

HP

Hewlett-Packard

HPC

High performance computing

HPF

High Performance FORTRAN

HPSS

High Performance Storage System

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IN2P3

Institut National de la Physique Nucléaire et de la Physique des Particules (France)

INCITE

Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (DOE)

INSU

Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (France)

I/O

Input/output

IPM

Integrated Performance Monitoring

ISF

Israel Science Foundation

ITER

A multinational tokamak experiment to be built in France (Latin for “the way”)

ITG

Ion temperature gradient

JGI

Joint Genome Institute (DOE)

JINA

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

JSPS

Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

KB

Kilobyte

LBNL

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

LCF

Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

LCRC

Laboratory Computing Resource Center, Argonne National Laboratory

LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LOASIS

Laser Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies

LONI

Louisiana Optical Network Initiative

LSU

Louisiana State University

MATLAB

A numerical computing environment and programming language (short for “matrix laboratory”)

MB

Megabyte

MPI

Message Passing Interface

NAIC

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCHC

National Center for High-Performance Computing (Taiwan)

NERSC

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NGF

NERSC Global Filesystem

NIM

NERSC Information Management system

NLCF

National Leadership Computing Facility (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

NOAA

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

nm

Nanometer

NOOMSRC

Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center

NP

Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE)

NSF

National Science Foundation

O

Oxygen

ONR

Office of Naval Research

OSF

Oakland Scientific Facility (LBNL)

OSG

Open Science Grid

OSKI

Optimized Sparse Kernel Interface Library

PC

Personal computer

PDSF

Parallel Distributed Systems Facility (NERSC)

PERCU

Performance, effectiveness, reliability, consistency, and usability

PERI

Performance Engineering Research Institute (SciDAC)

PGAS

Partitioned global address space

PGF

Production Genome Facility (JGI)

PIC

Particle-in-cell

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

PNC

Programme National de Cosmology (France)

RAMP

Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors

RDMA

Remote direct memory access

SC

Office of Science (DOE)

SciDAC

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (DOE)

SDM

Scientific Data Management Center

SDSA

Science-Driven System Architecture (NERSC)

SDSC

San Diego Supercomputer Center

SEM

Scanning electron micrograph

SETI

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SIGGRAPH

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

SIMD

Single instruction, multiple data

SMP

Symmetric multiprocessing (or multiprocessor)

SPE

Synergistic processing element

SPR

Surface plasmon resonance

SPU

Synergistic processing unit

SSAI

Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

SSH

Secure Shell protocol

SSP

Sustained System Performance benchmark

SST

Sea surface temperature

STEM

Scanning transmission electron microscopy

STI

Sony, Toshiba, and IBM

TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center

TB

Terabyte

teraflop/s

Tera (one trillion) floating point operations per second

Tflop/s

See teraflop/s

TOPS

Terascale Optimal PDE Simulations Center

UC

University of California

UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UIUC

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

UPC

Unified Parallel C

UPS

Uninterruptible power supply

USACOE

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Y

Yttrium