Glossary
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