| ALCC |
ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge |
| ASCR |
Advanced Scientific Computing Research (office of) |
| ASIC |
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ATLAS |
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus |
| CDT |
Cray Developer Toolkit |
| CFS |
Community File System |
| CMP |
Chip Multicore Processor |
| CMS |
Compact Muon Solenoid |
| CPE |
Cray Programming Environment |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CRT |
Computational Research and Theory Facility (aka Wang Hall) map |
| DDR |
Double Data Rate |
| DTN |
Data Transfer Node |
| DVS |
Data Virtualization Service |
| ERCAP |
Energy Research Computer Allocations Program |
| JGI |
Joint Genome Institute |
| GPC |
(Nvidia GPU's) GPU Processing Cluster |
| GPFS |
(IBM's) General Purpose File System |
| GPU |
Graphical Processing Unit |
| HEP |
High Energy Physics |
| HBM |
High Bandwidth Memory |
| HPC |
High Performance Computing |
| HPSS |
High Performance Storage System |
| HT (also HTT) |
Hyperthreading |
| IO (also I/O) |
Input Output |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IRI |
Integrated Research Infrastructure |
| KNL |
Knights Landing |
| LArSoft |
Liquid Argon Software |
| LArTPC |
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LNET |
Lustre network router |
| MCDRAM |
Multi-Channel DRAM |
| MDS |
Metadata Server, a component of the Lustre that manages file operation, e.g., create new file, write to shared file |
| MFA |
Multi-Factor Authentication |
| MIG |
(Nvidia GPU's) Multi-Instance GPU |
| MKL |
(Intel) Math Kernel Library |
| MOM |
Machine Oriented Mini-server |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
| MPMD |
Multiple Programs, Multiple Data |
| MPP |
Massively Parallel Processor |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
| N10 |
NERSC-10 Doudna System |
| NCN |
Non-Compute Node |
| NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
| NGF |
NERSC Global File system |
| NIC |
Network Interface Card or Network Interface Controller |
| NUG |
NERSC User Group |
| NUMA |
Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSS |
Object Storage Server, a component of Lustre |
| OST |
Object Storage Target, a component of Lustre, there can be 1 or more per OSS |
| OTP |
One-time Password |
| PGI |
Portland Group Incorporated |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| QDR |
Quad Data Rate |
| QOS |
Quality of Service |
| SIMD |
Single Instruction, Multiple Data |
| SIMT |
Single Instruction, Multiple Threads |
| SM |
(Nvidia GPU's) Streaming Multiprocessor |
| SMT |
Simultaneous Multithreading |
| SONIC |
Services for Optimized Network Inference on Coprocessors |
| SPMD |
Single Program, Multiple Data |
| SSH |
Secure Shell |
| SSO |
Single Sign-On |
| TPC |
(Nvidia GPU's) Texture Processing Cluster |
| UAI |
User Access Instance |
| UPC |
Unified Parallel C (programming language) |