Supercomputing: An Informal Glossary of Terms |
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16-processor machine achieve algorithm Amdahl's Law array of numbers bank conflict Cache memories cache or register clustered system compress/index Computational science contiguous cooling technology cycle Dhrystone ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS execution extended random access fetch and store Fortran full vector global memory global network granularity high-performance hypercube Hyperstar IEEE UNITED index vector Informal Glossary INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL instruction set intermix jobs iterations least one CPU loop unrolling MFLOPS rate microcode MIMD Multiple CPU architecture multiprocessing multiprogramming multitasking number of non-zeros number of processors operations per second overhead overlapped functional units Parallel Computers parallel processing percentage vectorization performance improve pipelined arithmetic units point operations primary memory proc puter memories random access memory SIMD single-instruction SISD speedup stream-multiple-data stream stride sub a half supercom SUPERCOMPUTING An Informal term throughput tion true ratio UNITED STATES ACTIVITIES usually vector computers vector instructions vector length vector operation vector with relatively Whetstone