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Suggested Citation:"D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21886.
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D

Acronyms and Abbreviations

3D

three-dimensional

ACI

Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (NSF)

aLIGO

Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories

BBH

binary black hole

BD Hub

Big Data Regional Innovation Hub

BLAS

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

CC*DNI

Campus Cyberinfrastructure—Data, Networking, and Innovation Program

CCAM

Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing

CCP

Collaborative Computational Project

CIF21

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering

CISE

Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

CMOS

complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

CPU

central processing unit

CSIA

Cyber Security and Information Assurance

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

Suggested Citation:"D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21886.
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DRAM

dynamic random-access memory

EB

exabyte

ECSS

Extended Collaborative Support Service

EU

European Union

F&A

facilities and administrative

FFRDC

federally funded research and development center

FFTPACK

Fastest Fourier Transform in the West Package

FFTW

Fastest Fourier Transform in the West

FLOP/s

floating-point operations per second

FPGA

field-programmable gate array

GB

gigabyte

GENI

Global Environment for Network Innovations

GPU

graphical processing unit

GSL

GNU Scientific Library

GTEPS

giga-traversed edges per second

HCSS

High Confidence Software and Systems

HDD

hard disk drive

HECIA

high-end computing infrastructure and applications

HECRD

High-End Computing Research and Development

HPC

high-performance computing

HPCG

High-Performance Conjugate Gradient

I/O

input/output

IOPS

input/output operations per second

IT

information technology

LAPACK

Linear Algebra Package

LSN

Large Scale Networking

LSST

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

MB

megabyte

MKL

Math Kernel Library

MPI

message passing interface

MREFC

Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction

MTDC

modified total direct cost

MUMPS

Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programing Systems

Suggested Citation:"D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21886.
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NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCSA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NERSC

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NITRD

Networking and Information Technology Research and Development

NSCI

National Strategic Computing Initiative

NSF

National Science Foundation

NTT

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

OCI

Office of Cyberinfrastructure

PACI

Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

PAPI

precision approach path indicator

pARPACK

Parallel Arnoldi Package

PB

petabyte

PETSc

Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation

PGAS

partitioned global address space

PITAC

President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee

PRAC

Petascale Computing Resource Allocations Committee

PRACE

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

PSC

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

PSPLINE

Princeton Spline and Hermite Cubic Interpolation Routines

R&D

research and development

ScaLAPACK

Scalable Linear Algebra PACKage

SCEC

Southern California Earthquake Center

SciDAC

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing

SCOREC

Scientific Computation Research Center

SDP

Software Design and Productivity

SEW

Social, Economic, and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development

SISI

Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation program

SLEPc

Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations

SSD

solid-state disk

SU

service unit

TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center

TB

terabyte

Suggested Citation:"D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21886.
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UPC

Universal Product Code

WAN

wide area network

XDMoD

XD Metrics on Demand

XRAC

XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee

XSEDE

Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

Suggested Citation:"D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21886.
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Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced computing has been growing for all types and capabilities of systems, from large numbers of single commodity nodes to jobs requiring thousands of cores; for systems with fast interconnects; for systems with excellent data handling and management; and for an increasingly diverse set of applications that includes data analytics as well as modeling and simulation. Since the advent of its supercomputing centers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided its researchers with state-of-the-art computing systems. The growth of new models of computing, including cloud computing and publically available by privately held data repositories, opens up new possibilities for NSF.

In order to better understand the expanding and diverse requirements of the science and engineering community and the importance of a new broader range of advanced computing infrastructure, the NSF requested that the National Research Council carry out a study examining anticipated priorities and associated tradeoffs for advanced computing. Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020 provides a framework for future decision-making about NSF's advanced computing strategy and programs. It offers recommendations aimed at achieving four broad goals: (1) position the U.S. for continued leadership in science and engineering, (2) ensure that resources meet community needs, (3) aid the scientific community in keeping up with the revolution in computing, and (4) sustain the infrastructure for advanced computing.

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