Glossary
- Core
- A single computing unit. This was called a CPU until manufacturers
started packing many processing units into a single package: now the
term CPU is used for the package, and core is one of the several
independent processing units within the package.
- Job
- A computational job is a single run of a non-interactive
application. The prototypical example is a run of GAMESS_ on a
single input file.
- Resource
- Short for “computational resource”: any cluster or Grid where a job
can run.
- Status
- A one-word indication of a computational job execution status (e.g.,
RUNNING or TERMINATED).
- Walltime
- Short for wall-clock time: indicates the total running time of a
job.