Glossary
- AI
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Artificial Intelligence
- API
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Application Programming Interface
- CCDB
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Compute Canada Database
- CLI
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command line interface
- CNN
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Convolution Neural Network
- COCO
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Common Objects in Context
- core
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A processing unit that can run instructions independently. Consists of an ALU, Control Unit and Registers (memory).
- CPU
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Central Processing Unit
- Data Parallelism
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A method of parallel computing that involves dividing a large dataset into smaller subsets and processing these subsets independently across multiple processors or device.
- DETR
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Detection Transformer
- DRAC
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Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- GIL
- GPU
- GPUs
- GUI
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graphical user interface
- HPC
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High Performance Computing
- I/O
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Input/Output
- IDE
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Integrated Development Environment
- Llama
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Large Language Model Meta
- Llamma
- MIG
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Mutil-instance GPU
- MNIST
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Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology
- MPI
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Message Passing Interface
- NAT
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Network Address Translation
- NLP
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Natural Language Processing
- node
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A single computer or server
- OpenMP
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Open Multi Processing
- OS
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Operating System
- PI
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Principal Investigator
- process
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A coherent unit of computing resources (Memory, file handlers, ports, devices) a process can manage one or more threads (therefore a thread can be thought of as a component of a process).
- processors
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It is also called a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and it performs most of the processing of a computer. It contains one or more cores.
- RAC
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Resource Allocation Competition
- RAM
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Random Access Memory
- RAS
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Rapid Access Service
- RGU
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Reference GPU
- RPP
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Research Platforms and Portals
- RRG
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Resources for Research Groups
- Task Parallelism
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A paradigm in parallel computing that involves dividing a larger task into smaller, independent sub-tasks that can be executed concurrently by multiple processors or threads
- TB
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Terabytes
- thread
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A sequence of instructions that are treated as a single unit for the purposes of scheduling and execution.
- threads
- VM
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Virtual Machine
