Q-W


QSW

high bandwidth network employed in very large clusters, specifically the SC series developed by Compaq

Quadrics

commercial vendor of networking hardware and software.

See also QSW.

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROMIO

Portable implementation of MPI-IO interface (not an acronym)

RWCP

major Japanese initiative to develop robust and sophisticated cluster software environment

SAN

System Area Network; a network optimized for use as a dedicated communication medium within a commodity cluster

Scheduler

a software tool which is part of the node operating system or system middleware that manages the assignment of tasks to cluster nodes and determines the timing of their execution

SMP

Symmetric MultiProcessor, tightly coupled cache coherent multiprocessor with uniform memory access

SSE

Streaming SIMD Extensions

WAN

Wide Area Networks used to connect distant sites, even on a continental scale




Beowulf Cluster Computing With Linux 2003
Beowulf Cluster Computing With Linux 2003
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