A#

• ACL :: Access Control List
• AI :: Artificial Intelligence
• AOCC :: AMD Compilers Collection
• ARC :: Advanced Research Computing
• AVX :: Advanced Vector eXtensions on x86_64 CPUs

B#

• BLAS :: Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

C#

• CPU :: Central Processing Unit, a computer’s processor
• CC :: Compute Canada, a former organization replaced by DRAC
• CCDB :: CC User Database, a user accounts portal maintained by DRAC
• CVMFS :: Cern Virtual Machines File System
• CUDA :: Compute Unified Device Architecture, an NVidia library for GPU calculations
• CY:: Core Year, the unit of CPU and GPU resources used by CCDB and RAC

D#

• DFT :: 1. Discrete Fourier Transform, 2. Density Functional Theory
• DRAC :: Digital Research Alliance of Canada, same as The Alliance

E#

F#

• FFT :: Fast Fourier Transform

G#

• GCC :: GNU Compiler Collection
• GPU :: Graphics Processing Unit
• GROMACS :: GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations
• GUI :: Graphical User Interface

H#

• HPC :: High-Performance Computing
• HTTP :: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS :: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
• HDF5 :: Hierarchical Data file Format version 5

I#

• I/O :: Input/Output
• IOPS :: I/O Operations Per Second
• IST :: Information Services and Technologies at UM

J#

• JuPyteR :: an interactive debugging and visualization tool for Python, Julia, R and other programming languages.

K#

L#

• LAMMPS :: Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator
• LAPACK :: Linear Algebra PACKage, used together with BLAS
• LDAP :: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, an user authenticaton service
• LLM :: Large Language Model, a flavour of ML
• LMod :: a software environment module system written in Lua at TACC
• Lustre :: a parallel filesystem for HPC

M#

• MDS :: Metadata Server
• MDT :: Metadata Target
• ML :: Machine Learning
• MPI :: Message-Passing Interface

N#

• NetCDF :: Network Common Data Form, a set of machine independed data formats
• NFS :: Network File System for Linux
• NVMe :: Non-Volatile Memory express, a form of SSD disk

O#

• OCI :: Open Containers Initiative, a container image format specification
• OMP , OpenMP :: Open Multi-Processing is a program interface for shared-memory multi-processing
• OOD :: Open OnDemand , a web portal for HPC
• OSS :: Object Storage Server
• OST :: Object Storage Target

P#

• PAICE :: Pan-Canadian AI Compute Environment
• PI :: Principal Investigator
• PMIx :: Process Management Interface for Exascale, a process kickstart system for MPI and SLURM

Q#

R#

• RAC :: Resource Allocation Competition
• RAM :: Random Access Memory
• RAS :: Rapid Access Service
• RDM :: Research Data Management

S#

• SLURM :: Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
• SSH :: Secure SHell
• SSD :: Solid State Disk
• SSL :: Secure Socket Layers, same as TLS

T#

• TLS :: Transport Layer Security

U#

• UM :: University of Manitoba

V#

• VASP :: Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package
• VM :: Virtual Machine

W#

• WAN :: A Wide Area Network (WAN) is a network that spans several geographically distributed locations.

X#

• X11 :: A GUI for UNIX and Linux based systems

Y#

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