CIQ Glossary
Accelerator Card, Accelerator
A catch-all term for devices that accelerate a specific type of computing. Some of these devices can work with a broad set of applications and workloads, while some are more specialized. For example…
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What is an Accelerator Card? Accelerator cards are specialized hardware components that are designed to offload and accelerate specific tasks. Accelerator cards are typically used in high-performance…
Read more AI Training/Inference
AI training and inference usually have to leverage HPC-type resources in order to run efficiently, even if these operations are sometimes more associated with enterprise computing based on the context…
Read more Application
Software run on HPC infrastructure to do computational jobs, like an AI training framework or a CFD program. Usually highly sophisticated in many ways and produced by domain experts.
Read more Apptainer
An open source container solution that unites the world of containers with the world of HPC in unique ways that other containerization solutions haven’t traditionally addressed, allowing for…
Read more Batch Jobs, Batch Processing
Computational jobs that a user submits and leaves to run without the job expecting additional input from them. Most traditional HPC use cases would be called batch processing jobs—e.g., submitting a…
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What is Batch Processing? Batch processing is a technique for automatically processing large amounts of data in a consecutive sequence. This procedure involves gathering the data and grouping it into…
Read more Beowulf Cluster, Beowulf-style Cluster, Beowulf Architecture
A cluster comprised of multiple consumer-grade computers, like common rack-mount servers, tower desktops, or even at some points in history, gaming console systems, all networked together over an…
Read more Beowulf Clusters
What Is a Beowulf Cluster? A Beowulf cluster is a type of high performance computing (HPC) cluster that is built using commodity hardware and open source software. Typically, a Beowulf cluster…
Read more CentOS
What is CentOS? CentOS, short for Community Enterprise Operating System, is an open source Linux-based operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code. It is designed as a…
Read more Cloud Bursting
What Is Cloud Bursting? Cloud bursting allows businesses to manage their infrastructure by automatically accessing additional cloud resources when there is an unexpected or temporary spike in demand…
Read more Cluster
A set of computers linked to each other in such a way that their resources can be collectively pooled together on computational jobs. “Cluster” is not a term exclusive to HPC (there are, for example…
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