cs.abbrev.md

CS :: Abbreviations

• ABI
• ASCII
• CRC
• CS
• DS
• DSA
• FPU
• FP
• FPL
• FRP
• FSB
• HT
• HKT
• HOF
• HRT
• IL
• IPL
• ILP
• IPC
• ISA
• LC
• MMU
• MAC
• MIMD
• MSB
• NUMA
• PL
• PLT
• PoC
• PSU
• PMU
• PRNG
• RAID
• RAM
• RNG
• ROM
• RSA
• SIMD
• SISD
• TCS
• TLB
• TLP
• UDF
• UMA

ABI

Application Binary Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CDN

Content delivery network

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CS

Computer Science

DS

1. Data structure
2. (rare) Denotational semantics

DSA

Data structures and algorithms (area of CS)

FPU

Floating-Point Unit

FP

Functional programming

FPL

Functional programming language

FRP

Functional reactive programming

FSB

Front Side Bus

HT

1. Hyper-Threading (Intel)
2. HyperTransport (AMD)

HKT

Higher-kinded types

HOF

Higher-order function

HRT

Higher-ranked types

IL

Intuitionistic logic

IXP

Internet exchange points

IP

1. Internet Protocol
2. Internet provider
3. Intellectual property

ILP

Instruction Level Parallelism

IPC

Instructions per Cycle

ISA

Instruction Set Architecture

LC

Lambda calculus

MMU

Memory Management Unit

MAC

Message authentication code

MIMD

Multiple Instructions Multiple Data

MSB

1. Most significant bit
2. Most significant byte

NUMA

Non-uniform memory access

OpenCL

Open Computing Language

PL

Programming language

PLT

Programming Language Theory

PoC

Proof of concept

PSU

Power supply unit

PMU

Performance-monitoring unit

PRNG

Pseudorandom number generator

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM

Random-Access Memory

RNG

Random number generator

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman cryptographic algorithm

SIMD

Single Instruction Multiple Data

SISD

Single Instruction Single Data

TCS

Theoretical computer science

TLB

Translation look-aside buffer

TLP

1. Theory of Programming Languages, aka PLT
2. Thread-level parallelism

UDF

User-defined function

UMA

Uniform Memory Access