Glossary
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| 3DxPoint              || Non-Volatile Storage Memory, produced by Intel              |
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| DCPMM                 || Data Centre Persistent Memory Module; the NVDIMM            |
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| DIMM                  || Dual In-line Memory Module; the most common form factor for |
|                       || DRAM                                                        |
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| FSDAX                 || File System (enabled) Direct Access; byte level access to   |
|                       || NVM provided by a mounted file system (ext4)                |
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| NVDIMM                || Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory module; a DIMM using NVRAM |
|                       || instead of standard DRAM                                    |
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| NVM                   || Non-Volatile Memory (see SCM)                               |
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| NVRAM                 || Non-Volatile Random Access Memory; persistent memory,       |
|                       || SCM used in a processor's main memory                       |
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| PMDK                  || Persistent Memory Development Kit; Libraries allowing for   |
|                       || operations on NVRAM (`pmem.io <http://pmem.io/>`_)          |
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| PyCOMPSs              || Python binding for COMPSs (COMP Superscalar); a programming |
|                       || model designed to ease parallel programming in distributed  |
|                       || architectures                                               |
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| SCM                   || Storage Class Memory; byte-addressable non-volatile memory  |
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| Slurm                 || Job Scheduler: allocates resources, provides commands for   |
|                       || executing and managing jobs and for managing job queues     |
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