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Magerit, the Glossary

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  1. 36 relations: Batch processing, Blue Brain Project, Byte, CentOS, Data-rate units, Ethernet, FLOPS, Gigabyte, GPFS, Green500, Hard disk drive, Hertz, IBM, IBM BladeCenter, IBM eServer, InfiniBand, Madrid, Manzanares (river), Message Passing Interface, Microsecond, Myrinet, Power ISA, POWER7, PowerPC, Random-access memory, Spanish Supercomputing Network, Supercomputer, Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical University of Madrid, ThinkSystem, TOP500, X86-64, XCAT, 64-bit computing.

  2. 2005 establishments in Spain
  3. Computer-related introductions in 2005
  4. IBM supercomputers
  5. Lenovo supercomputers
  6. Spanish Supercomputing Network

Batch processing

Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically.

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Blue Brain Project

The Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research initiative that aims to create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain. Magerit and Blue Brain Project are IBM supercomputers.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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CentOS

CentOS (from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

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FLOPS

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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GPFS

GPFS (General Parallel File System, brand name IBM Storage Scale and previously IBM Spectrum Scale) is high-performance clustered file system software developed by IBM.

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Green500

The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM BladeCenter

The IBM BladeCenter was IBM's blade server architecture, until it was replaced by Flex System in 2012. Magerit and IBM BladeCenter are IBM supercomputers.

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IBM eServer

IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM.

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InfiniBand

InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Manzanares (river)

The Manzanares is a river in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, which flows from the Sierra de Guadarrama, passes through Madrid, and eventually empties into the Jarama river, which in turn is a right-bank tributary to the Tagus.

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Message Passing Interface

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standardized and portable message-passing standard designed to function on parallel computing architectures.

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Microsecond

A microsecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one millionth (0.000001 or 10−6 or) of a second.

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Myrinet

Myrinet, ANSI/VITA 26-1998, is a high-speed local area networking system designed by the company Myricom to be used as an interconnect between multiple machines to form computer clusters.

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Power ISA

Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM.

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POWER7

POWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the POWER6 and POWER6+.

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Spanish Supercomputing Network

The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) is a distributed infrastructure involving the interconnexion of 12 supercomputers which work together to offer High Performance Computing resources to the scientific community.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid

The Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa), also called Madrid Supercomputing and Visualization Center (in Spanish, Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid), depends on the computer science faculty of the Technical University of Madrid. Magerit and Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid are Spanish Supercomputing Network.

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SUSE Linux

SUSE Linux is a computer operating system developed by SUSE.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise

SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) is a Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE.

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Technical University of Madrid

The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain.

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ThinkSystem

ThinkSystem is a family of Intel servers from Lenovo.

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TOP500

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.

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X86-64

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999.

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XCAT

xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is open-source distributed computing management software developed by IBM, used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters.

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64-bit computing

In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.

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See also

2005 establishments in Spain

IBM supercomputers

Lenovo supercomputers

Spanish Supercomputing Network

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magerit