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HTML HyperText Markup Language — a generic markup language,
comprising a set of tags, that enables structured documents to be
delivered over the World Wide Web and viewed by a browser.
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol — a communications protocol commonly
used between a Web server and a Web browser together with a URL
(Uniform Resource Locator).
LED Light-Emitting Diode.
MIMD Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data — parallel processing computer
architecture characterized as having multiple processors each
(potentially) executing a different instruction sequence on different
data.
MMU Memory Management Unit — part of CPU that provides protection
between user processes and support for virtual memory.
MPI Message Passing Interface — parallel processing API.
MPP Massively Parallel Processing — processing that involves the use of a
large number of processors in a coordinated fashion.
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect — the Elan is connected to a
node through this interface.
PDF Portable Document Format — the page description language used by
Adobe Acrobat, derived from PostScript, for displaying pages on the
screen.
PTE Page Table Entry — an entry in the page table which maps the base
address of a page to physical memory.
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer — a computer whose machine
instructions represent relatively simple operations that can be
executed very quickly.
RMS Resource Management System — Quadrics software for managing
clusters of UNIX nodes.
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory — high performance
computer memory architecture.
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