Glossary

A

• AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

• AI: Artificial Intelligence

• API: Application programming interface

• AVX: Advanced Vector eXtensions

B

• BLAS: Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

• BU: Billing Unit

C

• CBC: Cipher Block Chaining

• CD: Continuous Deployment

• CI: Continuous Integration

• CLI: Command-Line Interface

• CPU: Central Processing Unit

• CTR: Counter

D

• DBaaS: Database-as-a-Service

• DFT: 1. Discrete Fourier Transform, 2. Density Functional Theory

E

• ECB: Electronic Codebook

• EtM: Encrypt-then-MAC

F

• FFT: Fast Fourier Transform

• FLOPS: Floating Point Operations Per Second

• FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G

• GC: Grand Challenge (project)

• GCC: GNU Compiler Collection

• GCD: Graphics Compute Die

• GID: Group IDentifier

• GNU: GNU's Not Unix

• GPU: Graphics Processing Unit

• GUI: Graphical User Interface

H

• HPC: High-Performance Computing

• HTC: High-Throughput Computing

• HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I

• I/O: Input/Output

• IaaS: Infrastructure-as-a-Service

• IaC: Infrastructure-as-Code

• IP: Internet Protocol

L

• LUMI: Large Unified Modern Infrastructure

M

• MAC: Message Authentication Code

• MDS: Metadata Server

• MDT: Metadata Target

• MFA: Multi-Factor Authentication

• ML: Machine Learning

• MOOC: Massive Open Online Course

• MPI: Message-Passing Interface

N

• NFS: Network File System

• NVMe: Non-Volatile Memory express

O

• OMP: Open Multi-Processing

• OOD: Open OnDemand

• OSS: Object Storage Server

• OST: Object Storage Target

P

• PaaS: Platform-as-a-Service

• PBKDF1: Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1

• PBKDF2: Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2

• PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect

• PCIe: Peripheral Component Interconnect express

• PI: Principal Investigator

• PM: Project Manager

• PME: Particle-Mesh Ewald

• PRACE: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

Q

• QLM: Quantum Learning Machine

• QPU: Quantum Processing Unit

R

• REPL: Read–Eval–Print Loop

• RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

S

• SaaS: Software-as-a-Service

• SLURM: Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management

• SMT: Simultaneous Multithreading

• SPoF: Single point of Failure

• SQL: Structured Query Language

• SSH: Secure SHell

• SSL: Secure Sockets Layer

T

• TLS: Transport Layer Security

• TOTP: Time-based One-Time Password

U

• UI: User Interface

• UUID: Universally Unique Identifier

• UX: User Experience

V

• VM: Virtual Machine

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