Glossary

A list of specialized words and their definition from the Rescale platform.

• Accelerated Computing
• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
• AI Physics
• ANSYS Elastic Unit (AEU)
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)
• Auto Scaling
• Automated Region Fanout
• Availability Zone
• AWS
• Bare Metal
• Batch Jobs
• Benchmark
• Big Compute
• Blob Storage
• Block Storage
• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
• Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
• CAD
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Checkpoint Restart
• Cloud Bursting
• Cloud Native
• Cloud Operating Model
• Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud-First
• Cluster
• Co-Simulation
• Cold Storage
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Computational Pipelines
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Compute Recommendation Engine (CRE)
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
• Computer Cluster
• Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
• Container
• Continuous Performance Optimization
• Core
• Core Memory
• Coretype
• Data Extraction
• Data Factory
• Data Governance
• Data Gravity
• Data Lake
• Data Sovereignty
• Data Warehouse
• DDoS
• Deep Learning (DL)
• Design Exploration
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Digital Engineering
• Digital R&D
• Digital Threads
• Digital Transformation
• Digital Twin
• Direct Connect
• Disaster Recovery
• Discrete Element Method (DEM or EDEM)
• DoS
• EC2
• Edge Computing
• EFS
• Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• Embarrassingly (or ‘perfectly’ or pleasingly’) parallel
• Embarrassingly Parallel
• Engineering Manager
• Explicit Solvers
• ExpressRoute
• Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
• File Storage
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Floating License (Network License)
• Floating Point Operations Per Second (FLOPS)
• Full-stack Economics
• GPUs
• Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)
• Graphic User Interface (GUI)
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Hardware in the Loop (HiL)
• Heterogeneous Computing
• High Performance Storage (HPS)
• High Throughput Computing (HTC)
• HPC
• Hybrid Cloud
• IAM
• Identification Access Management
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Implicit Solvers
• Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
• Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
• Industry 4.0
• InfiniBand
• InfiniBand
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Input Deck