11. Glossary

CC-NUMA: Cache Coherent Non Uniform Memory Access

Non-uniform memory organization with cache coherence

DSP: Digital Signal Processor

Signal processor

FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array

Door network with programmable configuration

GPU: Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics processor

MIMD: Multiple Instruction streams Multiple Data streams

Multiple instruction streams executing multiple data streams

MISD: Multiple Instruction streams Single Data stream

Multiple instruction streams executing one data stream

MPI: Message Passing Interface

Function library for message-passing...