The abbreviated names used in this book are defined below.
| Short Name | Full Name |
|---|---|
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive |
| BLACS | Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms |
| BLAS | Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms |
| ESSL | Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LAPACK | Linear Algebra Package |
| LAPI | Low-level Application Programming Interface |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| MPL | Message Passing Library |
| NLS | National Language Support |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PE | Parallel Environment |
| PBLAS | Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms |
| POWER, POWER2(TM), POWER3, POWER3-II, POWER4, and PowerPC processors | IBM |
| PSSP | Parallel System Support Programs |
| ScaLAPACK | Scalable Linear Algebra Package |
| SMP | Symmetric Multi-Processing |
| SPMD | Single Program Multiple Data |
| US | User Space |