Appendix. HPCC Thesaurus (preliminary draft)

Application areas:
aerodynamics
astrophysics
atmospheric dynamics
chemistry
  molecular dynamics
  molecular mechanics
  quantum chemistry
cosmology
  gravitational interaction
electromagnetics
environmental science
  global climate modeling
  weather forecasting
financial modeling
first order logic
fluid dynamics
  hydrodynamics
    magnetohydrodynamics
    radiation hydrodynamics
geology
lattice field theory
materials science
molecular biology
  protein crystallography
particle dynamics
quantum mechanics
structural mechanics

Problem area:
asynchronous problem (Fox & Coddington)
automatic theorem proving
computational geometry (INSPEC) (GAMS P)
computer vision
connected component labeling
differential equations
  ordinary differential equations
  partial differential equations
    elliptic partial differential equations
diffraction modeling
elementary vector operations (GAMS D1a)
finite difference approximation
finite element analysis (INSPEC)
  difference equations (INSPEC)
image processing
irregular problem
loosely synchronous problem (Fox & Coddington)
matrix transpose  (GAMS D1b3)
multiblock problem
multigrid problem (USE multigrid method?)
N-body simulation
neural network
numerical differentiation (gams H1)
optimization
  nonlinear optimization
particle dynamics
radiation transfer
random surface model
ray tracing
signal processing
sparse linear systems
spin model
synchronous problem (Fox & Coddington)
vector quantization
volume rendering


Algorithms:
adaptive mesh method
Barnes-Hut algorithm
block truncated Newton method
conjugate gradient method
fast multipole algorithm
grid method
  UF grid based application
iterative method
Levenberg-Marquardt method
Metropolis algorithm
multidirectional search
parallel direct search
multigrid method
particle in cell method
particle mesh method
simulated annealing
trust region Newton method
variable metric method


Data structures:
distributed array
structured grid
  UF regular grid
unstructured grid
  UF irregular grid


Function:
animation
data analysis
data visualization
  particle data visualization
  volume visualization
domain decomposition
  UF data partitioning
  tiling
error analysis
execution analysis
  debugging
    parallel debugging
  execution monitoring
    trace file generation
  execution trace visualization
mesh generation
  UF grid generation
performance analysis
  performance monitoring
  performance tuning
  performance visualization
simulation
software development 
sorting
source code analysis
  dependence analysis
source code restructuring
visual programming

Resource type:
archive
  historical archive
benchmark
application library
  parallel application library
application program
communications library
  message passing library
  MPI
compiler
  parallel compiler
  parallelizing compiler
compiler generator
domain specific language
emulator
example program
functional language
operating system
  parallel operating system
programming language
  parallel programming language
    HPF
numerical library
  parallel numerical library
object library
parallel programming environment
parallel programming library
parallel processing tool
routine
  numerical routine
runtime system
  parallel runtime system
template


Architecture:
sequential architecture
parallel architecture
  SIMD machine
  MIMD machine
  distributed memory multiprocessor
  processor array machine
    USE distributed memory multiprocessor; SIMD machine
  shared memory multiprocessor
  virtual shared memory
  vectorprocessor
  machine cluster
    workstation cluster
  massively parallel multiprocessor

Properties: (of what?)
architecture dependence
architecture independence
  UF portability
coarse grain parallelism
data locality
data parallelism
fault tolerance
fine grain parallelism
load balancing
nonuniform memory access
  UF NUMA
parallel processing (INSPEC)
partitioning
  data partitioning
    UF data distribution
  work distribution
resource allocation
  static resource allocation
  dynamic resource allocation
  processor allocation
synchronization
  barrier synchronization
  process synchronization
task parallelism
  UF functional parallelism
  UF thread parallelism