Internet Parallel Computing Archive

Parallel : Acronyms

[ News | IPCA | Mirrors | Add | Search | Mail | Help | WoTUG ]

• High Performance Computing and Communications Glossary
  An updated copy of the original at <URL:http://www.npac.syr.edu:80/nse/hpccgloss/hpccgloss.html> split into several sections by initial letter.

  Author: Ken Hawick (hawick@npac.syr.edu)

• Computer Architecture Taxonimy FAQ@
  Last modified 10:18:03, 29 Jun 1993 - 21.3K - text
  

  Author: Andy D Ben-Dyke (adb@cs.bham.ac.uk)

• bsp/@
  Bulk Synchronous Parallel (processing) [Valiant]
• cnaps/
  Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems.
• csp/@
  Communicating Sequential Processes [Hoare]
• dmmp/@
  Distributed Memory, Message Processing [Flynn]
• dmsv/@
  Distributed Memory, Shared Variables [Johnson]
• gmmp/@
  Global Memory, Message Passing [Johnson]
• gmsv/@
  Global Memory, Shared Variables [Johnson]
• gsm/@
  Global Shared Memory.
• gvt/@
  Global Virtual Time.
• mimd/@
  Multiple Instructions Multiple Data [Flynn]
• misd/@
  Multiple Instructions Single Data [Flynn]
• mp/@
  Massively Parallel (Processing)
• simd/@
  Single Instruction Multiple Data [Flynn]
• sisd/@
  Single Instruction Single Data [Flynn]
• smp/@
  Symmetrical Multi-Processing.
• vsm/@
  Virtual Shared Memory.

[Hoare]: C. A. Hoare. A Model for Communicating Sequential Processes. Oxford University Programming Research Group, Technical Report PRG-22, 1981.

[Johnson] Eric E. Johnson. Completing an MIMD multiprocessor taxonomy. Computer Architecture News, 16(3):44-47, June 1988.