Research Computing: Quick Reference

ARCC

Advanced Research Computing Center

Bash

Bourne-Again Shell (See #Shell)

CIFS

Common Internet File System (See #SMB)

Cloud Computing

TODO

Cloud Storage

TODO

Csh

C shell (See #Shell)

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

Globus

A data transfer and sharing framework built around the use of the GridFTP protocol

GPFS (See IBM Spectrum Scale)

General Parallel File System

GridFTP

A protocol that extends FTP to be suitable for high performance/large data transfer; has multiple implementations including by Globus (See #FTP, #Globus)

HPC

High-Performance Computing

HTC

High Throughput Computing

Mount Moran

The first UW centralized condominium cluster installed in 2012.

NFS

Network File System (NFS) is a client/server system that allows users to access files across a network and treat them as if they reside on the local computer.

NSF

National Science Foundation

NWSC

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center

petaLibrary

Capacity-designed storage system to share data with other members of UW and external institutions.

Research Computing

The use of computing infrastructure, local or centralized, to perform research or aid experimental or theoretical research.

RMACC

Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium

Science DMZ

A Science Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a portion of a larger network that has been configured and optimized for the transfer of high-volume scientific data.

Shell

Command-line interface or shell that provides a traditional Unix-like command-line user interface to the operating system.

Slurm Workload Manager

A flexible and scalable scheduler that implements job scheduling, fairshare, limits, and Quality of Service (QoS)

SMB

Protocol for accessing remote filesystems on a Windows or Linux/Unix based operating system.

SSH

Secure SHell

Teton

2018 ARCC Intel-based HPC Cluster

XSEDE

Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment