1.2 Key Terminology and Usage
This document includes a glossary of key terms used through this guide. This is to help simplify and clarify the information presented.
For example, instead of using terms specific to the traditional HPC (research, university, and government institutions) and commercial enterprise markets, such as "HPC cluster" and "datacenter" and their corresponding "compute node" and "server" terms, this guide uses the generic terms "system" and "host", respectively. Also this guide uses the term "workload" to represent an arbitrary amount of work to execute on a system while "job" refers to workload submitted by a user to a system's scheduler for eventual execution on one or more of the system's hosts.
Refer often to the glossary for a complete list of terms used in this guide. The Glossary tab is provided to the right of the Contents tab.
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