8 May 1998

High-performance Computing, National Security Applications, and
Export Control Policy at the Close of the 20th Century

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## APPENDIX C. Glossary

    ADVISR        Advanced Virtual Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance
    AGCM          Atmospheric General Circulation Model
    AHPCRC        Army High Performance Computing Research Center
    ALE           Arbitrary Lagrangian Euler
    ARPS          Advanced Regional Prediction System
    ASC           Aeronautical Systems Center
    CBDCOM        Chemical Biological Defense COMmand
    CCM           Computational Chemistry and Materials Science
    CCM2          Community Climate Model
    CEA           Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics
    CEN           Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics
    CFD           Computational Fluid Dynamics
    CGF           Computer Generated Force
    CMOS          Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
    CRA           Cooperative Research Agreement
    CSM           Computational Structural Mechanics
    CTA           Computational Technology Area
    CTI           Coherent Toroidal Interconnect
    CTP           Composite Theoretical Performance
    CWO           Climate/Weather/Ocean Modeling and Simulation
    DIS           Distributed Interactive System
    DNS           Direct Numerical Simulation
    DoD           Department of Defense
    DSM           Distributed Shared Memory
    DSP           Digital Signal Processing
    ECL           Emitter-Coupled Logic
    ECMWF         European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts

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    EFS           Ensemble Forecast System
    EQM           Environmental Quality Modeling and Simulating
    EW            Electronic Warfare
    FD            Finite Difference
    FE            Finite Element
    FFT           Fast Fourier Transform
    FMS           Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I
    FV            Finite Volume
    HLA           High Level Architecture
    HPC           High-Performance Computing
    HPCMP         High Performance Computing Modernization Program
    IFS           Integrated Forecasting System
    IMT           Integrated Modeling and Test Environments
    LES           Large Eddy Simulation
    LOTS          Logistics Over The Shore
    MCARM         Multi-Channel Airborne Radar Measurement
    MM5           Mesoscale Model
    ModSAF        Modular Semi-Automated Forces
    MPI           Message Passing Interface
    MPP           Massively Parallel Platform
    Mtops         Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second
    MVOI          Multi-Variate Optimum Interpolation
    NAVO          Naval Oceanographic Office
    NCAR          National Center for Atmospheric Research
    NOGAPS        Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
    NORAPS        Navy Operational Regional Atmospheric Prediction System
    N-S           Navier-Stokes
    NUMA          Non-Uniform Memory Access
    OEM           Other Equipment Manufacturer
    PCA           PowerChallenge Array

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    PCCM2         Parallel Community Climate Model
    PVP           Parallel Vector Platform
    PVP           Pipelined Vector Supercomputer
    RASSP         Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processor
    SAEF          Simple Average Ensemble Forecast
    SAR           Synthetic Aperture Radar
    SCI           Scalable Coherent Interconnect
    SF Express    Synthetic Forces Express
    SHV           Standard High Volume
    SIA           Semiconductor Industry Association
    Simnet        Simulator Network
    SIP           Signal/Image Processing
    SLT           Semi-Lagrangian Transport
    SMP           Symmetrical MultiProcessor
    SPP           Scalable Parallel Processor
    SSC           Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
    STAP          Space-Time Adaptive Processing
    STOW-E        Synthetic Theater of War - Europe
    SWAPS         Spectral Wave Prediction System
    UAV           Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    ASCI          Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
    DARPA         Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
    DEC           Digital Equipment Corporation
    DoE           Department of Energy
    DRAM          Dynamic Random Access Memory
    IVL           Individually Validated License
    JAST          Joint Advanced Strike Technology
    PVM           Parallel Virtual Machines
    RISC          Reduced Instruction Set Computing
    SGI           Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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    SRAM          Static Random Access Memory
    V-DRAM        Vector-Intelligent Random Access Memory
    UV            UltraViolet

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