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Parallel Programming Glossary of Technical Terms

By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (120 posts) on May 27, 2008 at 2:38 pm

The Parallel Programming Glossary of Technical Terms has been published in the Intel Software Network Wiki. We've started with a list of terms we use often and look forward to your edits and update.

Thank you to Tim Mattson and his co-authors Beverly A. Sanders, Berna L. Massingill for allowing us to publish the terms from their book Patterns for Parallel Programming.

Here is is the list of terms, if you see something missing please join us in editing to make the list the best it can be:

• Abstract data type
• Abstraction
• Address space
• Amdahl's law
• AND parallelism
• Application Programming Interface
• Atomic
• Autoboxing
• Bandwidth
• Barrier
• Beowulf cluster
• Bi-section bandwidth
• Bibliography
• Broadcast
• Bus architecture
• Cache
• ccNUMA
• Cluster
• Collective communication
• Concurrent execution
• Concurrent program
• Condition variable
• Contention
• Copy on write
• Core
• Counting semaphore
• Critical section
• Cyclic distribution
• Data parallel
• Deadlock
• Design pattern
• Distributed computing
• Distributed shared memory
• DSM
• Eager evaluation
• Efficiency
• Embarrassingly parallel
• EPIC
• Explicitly parallel language
• Factory
• False sharing
• Fence
• Fork
• Fork/join
• Framework
• Future variable
• Generic programming
• Generics
• Grid
• Heterogeneous
• Homogeneous
• Hypercube
• Implicitly parallel language
• Incremental parallelism
• Java
• Java Virtual Machine
• Join
• JVM
• Latency
• Lazy evaluation
• Linda
• Live lock
• Load balance
• Load balancing
• Locality
• Lock
• Many-core processor
• Massively parallel processor
• Master/Worker
• MESI protocol
• Message Passing Interface
• MIMD
• Monitor
• MPI*
• MPP
• Multi-core processor
• Multicomputer
• Multiprocessor
• Mutex
• Node
• NUMA
• OpenMP*
• OR parallelism
• Parallel file system
• Parallel overhead
• PE
• Peer-to-peer computing
• Point-to-point architecture
• Polymorphism
• POSIX
• Precedence graph
• Process
• Process migration
• Processing element
• Programming environment
• Programming model
• Pthreads
• PVM
• Race condition
• Reader/writer locks
• Reduction
• Refactoring
• Remote procedure call
• RPC
• Semaphore
• Serial fraction
• Server/workstation farm
• Shared address space
• Shared memory
• Shared nothing
• SIMD
• Simultaneous multithreading
• Single Program Multiple Data
• Single-assignment variable
• SMP
• SMT
• Snoop filter
• Snooping
• Speedup
• SPMD
• Stride
• Strongly ordered memory
• Symmetric multiprocessor
• Synchronization
• Systolic algorithm
• Systolic array
• Task
• Task Parallelism
• Task queue
• Thread
• Thread pool
• Transputer
• Tuple space
• UE
• Unit of execution
• Vector supercomputer
• Virtual shared memory
• Virtual shared memory
• Weakly ordered memory

Categories: Parallel Programming

Comments (3)

May 28, 2008 1:08 PM PDT rchrd

When I click on any of the links in this article, including the link at the top to the glossary itself, I get: Sorry, there is no Article to display. If you have any questions, please contact Intel® Software Network Support. Is it just me, or is there something wrong here?

May 29, 2008 1:36 AM PDT jmuffat Total Points: 175 Status Points: 125 Green Belt

Same problem here, pity because this looks like it'd be a very handy page to bookmark...

June 5, 2008 8:46 AM PDT Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) Total Points: 15,556 Status Points: 15,556 Community Manager

I jumped the gun on making this post live. All the terms are now linkable and editable by the community. Thank you for keeping an eye on me.

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