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commodity cluster employing personal computers or low-cost SMP servers to achieve excellent price-performance initially developed by the Beowulf project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
the fundamental unit of information representing a two-state value; a digital circuit capable of storing a two-state value
basic linear algebra subroutines
bits per second, a unit measure of data transfer rate
a commonly addressed quantity of digital information storage of eight bits reflecting one of 256 distinct values
in the general sense, any interconnected ensemble of computers capable of independent operation but employed to service a common workload
a cluster of commercial computing nodes integrated with a commercial system area network
a cluster of large DSM, SMP, or MPP computing nodes incorporating more microprocessors per node than there are nodes in the system
cluster of workstations; an early project at the University of Wisconsin
distributed shared memory multiprocessor, tightly coupled cache coherent multiprocessor with non-uniform memory access
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
the first widely used and truly ubiquitous local area network operating at 10 Mbps
a cost effective local area network based on the original Ethernet protocol that has become very popular with low end Beowulf-class systems; providing 100 Mbps
a LAN that is the successor of Fast Ethernet providing peak bandwidth of 1 Gbps.
a project resulting in a number of open source and free software tools including the GNU C compiler and Emacs
GNU Public License; a legal framework protecting open source software
Hierarchical data format, both a file format and high level interface for I/O access in both sequential and parallel applications
High Performance Linpack
a system-area network designed to provide high performance and to provide a path for rapid improvement in network bandwidth.
Instruction Set Architecture
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