Glossary
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- ACK	Acknowledge
- am	Active Message
- AMO	Atomic Memory Operation
- ANL	Argonne National Laboratory
- AZP	AZure Pipeline
- bcopy	Byte copy
- Bistro	Binary Instrumentation
- BTL	Byte Transfer Layer
- cm	Connection Manager
- CMA	Cross Memory Attach
- CQ	Completion Queue(Infiniband)
- CQE	Completion Queue Entry(Infiniband)
- csmock	static analysis tools
- CUDA	Compute Unified Device Architecture(NVIDIA)
- DC	Dynamically Connected transport(Infiniband)
- ep	EndPoint
- FC	Flow Control
- fd	File Descriptor
- GDR	GPUDirect RDMA
- gtest	Google Test
- HPC	High Performance Computing
- HWTM	HardWare Tag Matching
- IB	Infiniband
- iface	Interaface
- IPC	Inter Process Communication
- JUCX	Java API over UCP
- KLM	A new sophisticated way of creating memory regions.- (Mellanox specific)
- KNEM	Kernel Nemesis
- LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- madvise	give advice about use of memory. See manual - madvise(2)
- md	Memory Domain
- MEMH	Memory Handle
- MLX	Mellanox Technologies
- mlx5	Connect-X5 VPI
- mm	Memory Mapper
- MPI	Message Passing INterface
- MPICH	A MPI Implementation
- MTT	The MPI Testing Tool
- NAK	Negative Acknowledge
- ODP	OnDemand Paging
- OFA	OpenFabrics Alliance
- OMPI	OpenMPI
- OOB	Out of band
- OOO	Out of Order
- OPA	Omni-Path Architecture
- Open MPI	A MPI Implementation
- ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- PCIe	PCI Express
- PGAS	Partitioned Global Address Space
- POSIX	Portable operating system interface
- ppn	processes per node
- PR	Pull Request
- PROGRESS64	A C library of scalable functions for - concurrent programs, primarily focused on networking - applications.(https://github.com/ARM-software/- progress64)
- QP	Queue Pair(Infiniband)
- RC	Reliable Connection (Infiniband)
- rcache	Registration Cache
- RDMA	Remote Direct Memory Access
- REQ	Request
- rkey	Remote KEY
- RMA	Remote Memory Access
- RNR	Receiver Not Ready
- RoCE	RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- ROCm	Radeon Open Compute platform(AMD)
- RTE	Run Time Environment
- RX	Receive
- Skb	Socket Buffer
- sm	Shared Memory
- SM	Subnet Manager(Infiniband)
- SockCM	Socket Connection Manager
- SRQ	Shared Receive Queue
- SYSV	UNIX System V
- tl	Transport Layer
- TLS	Transpot LayerS
- TM	Tag Matching
- TX	Transmit
- UC	Unreliable Connection (Infiniband)
- UCF	Unified Communication Framework
- UCM	Unified Communication Memory
- UCP	Unified Communication Protocols Higher level API
- UCS	Unified Communication Service Common utilities.
- UCT	Unified Communication Transport Lower level API
- UCX	Unified Communication X
- UD	Unreliable Datagram (Infiniband)
- uGNI	user level generic network interface(Cray)
- UMR	User mode memory registration
- VPI	Virtual Protocol Interconnect
- WQ	Work Queue(Infiniband)
- WQE	Work Queue Elements (pronounce WOOKIE)
- WR	Work Request
- XPMEM	cross partition memory
- XRC	eXtended Reliable Connection(Infiniband)
- Zcopy	Zero Copy