8 MPIA User-level Message-passing Interface

		Index of Acronyms

		A

		AFS Andrew File System, 119

		AGP Accelerated Graphics Port, 39

		AI Artificial Intelligence, 224

		AMD Advanced Micro Devices, 35

		ANSI American National Standards Institute, 78

		ANTLR  ANother  Tool  for  Language Recognition, 80

		API Application Programming Interface, 10

		ASRAM Asynchronous  Static  Random Access Memory, 43

		ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode, 102

		ATX Advanced Technology Extended, 37

		B

		BDA BIOS Data Area, 46

		BIOS Basic Input Output System, 46

		BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol, 130

		BSD Berkeley Software Distribution, 63

		BSP Bulk Synchronous Parallelism, 9

		C

		CA Cellular Automaton, 180

		CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory, 47

		CDE Common Desktop Environment, 82

		CERT Computer  Emergency  Response Team, 138

		CM Connection Machine, 13

		CMMD Connection  Machine Message Passing Library, 163

		CMOS Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, 57

		CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture, 116

		COTS Commodity Off The Shelf, 9

		CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers, 15

		CPU Central Processing Unit, 32

		CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check, 97

		CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect, 94

		CVS Concurrent Versions System, 81

		D

		DCE Distributed Computing Environment, 120

		DCOM Distributed Component Object Model, 116

		DEC Digital Equipment Corporation, 34

		DFS Distributed File System, 120

		DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, 126

		DIMM Double Inline Memory Module, 39

		DIS Dynamic Interactive Simulation, 223

		DLL Dynamically Linked Library, 69

		DMA Direct Memory Access, 37

		DOS Disk Operating System, 15

		DRAM Dynamic Random  Access Memory, 43

		DVD Digital Versatile Disc, 47

		DVI TeX Device Independent file, 90

		E

		ECC Error Correcting Code, 39

		EDO Extended Data Out, 43

		EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory, 31

		EGCS Experimental GNU Compiler System, 78

		EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics, 47

		EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture, 31