National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 2004 Annual Report
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Appendix G
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AGM |
Associate General Manager |
AIX |
Advanced Interactive eXecutive (an IBM operating system) |
ALS |
Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Lab |
AMBER |
Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement |
AMR |
Adaptive mesh refinement |
ASC |
Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE) |
ASCR-MICS |
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, |
AVHF |
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) |
BER |
Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE) |
BES |
Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DOE) |
BGL |
Blue Gene/L, Argonne National Laboratory |
BMBF |
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany) |
BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
BRAHMS |
Broad Range Hadron Magnetic Spectrometer at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
BSPO |
Belgian Science Policy Office |
CAM |
Community Atmospheric Model |
CCSE |
Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (Berkeley Lab) |
CCSM |
Community Climate System Model |
CENIC |
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California |
CMSO |
Center for Magnetic Self-Organization at the University of Chicago |
COLTRIMS |
Cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy |
CPU |
Central processing unit |
CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) |
CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
DAE |
Department of Atomic Energy (India) |
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DEFRA |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK) |
DFG |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) |
DFT |
Density functional theory |
DNS |
Direct numerical simulation |
DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
DST |
Department of Science and Technology (India) |
EPSRC |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) |
ES |
Earth Simulator (Japan) |
ESnet |
Energy Sciences Network (DOE) |
FAPESP |
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) |
FES |
Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (DOE) |
FOM |
Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (Netherlands) |
GACR |
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic |
GB |
Gigabyte |
GMODGO |
Graduiertenkolleg Molekulare Organisation und Dynamik an Grenz- und Oberflächen (Germany) |
GMRDP |
Government Meteorological Research and Development Programme (UK) |
GPFS |
General Parallel File System (IBM) |
HadCM3 |
Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 |
HEP |
Office of High Energy Physics (DOE) |
HPC |
High performance computing |
HPCMP |
High Performance Computing Modernization Program (U.S. Department of Defense) |
HPCS |
High Productivity Computer Systems |
HPSS |
High Performance Storage System |
HSM |
Hierarchical Storage Manager |
ilmm |
in lucem Molecular Mechanics |
IN2P3 |
Institut National de la Physique Nucléaire et de la Physique des Particules (France) |
INCITE |
Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (DOE) |
I/O |
Input/output |
ITER |
A multinational tokamak experiment to be built in France (Latin for “the way”) |
JGI |
Joint Genome Institute (DOE) |
JSPS |
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
KamLAND |
Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (Japan) |
KUL |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
LANL |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
LBNL |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LBW |
Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg (Germany) |
MAN |
Metropolitan area network |
MAPS |
Memory Access Pattern Signature |
MB |
Megabyte |
MEC |
Ministry of Education of China |
MECS |
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) |
MEXT |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) |
MPP |
Massively parallel processing |
MSCF |
Molecular Science Computing Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCCS |
National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
NGF |
NERSC Global Filesystem |
NMR |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
NNSFC |
National Natural Science Foundation of China |
NOAA |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
NP |
Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE) |
NPACI |
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
NSA |
Near-surface alloy |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
OGSA |
Open Grid Services Architecture |
ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
OSP |
Open Software and Programming Group (NERSC) |
PB |
Petabyte |
PCM |
Parallel Climate Model |
PDSF |
Parallel Distributed Systems Facility (NERSC) |
PGF |
Production Genome Facility (JGI) |
PHENIX |
Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction Experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
PHOBOS |
A detector experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
PMEMD |
Particle mesh Ewald molecular dynamics |
PPDG |
Particle Physics Data Grid |
PSCSR |
Polish State Committee for Scientific Research |
QGP |
Quark-gluon plasma |
RFP |
Request for proposals |
RHIC |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
RMST |
Russian Ministry of Science and Technology |
SC |
Office of Science (DOE) |
SciDAC |
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (DOE) |
SDSA |
Science-Driven System Architecture (NERSC) |
SNSF |
Swiss National Science Foundation |
SSP |
Sustained System Performance benchmark |
STAA |
Science and Technology Assistance Agency (Slovakia) |
STAR |
Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC |
TB |
Terabyte |
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
UC |
University of California |
UCB |
University of California, Berkeley |
USAF-OSR |
U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
UWM |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
ViVA |
Virtual Vector Architecture |
WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |