HFSS15: General Terminology for LSF

• Core: unit of processing

• Processor: consists of one or more cores

• Machine/Host/Node: consists of one or more processors, memory, disk, etc.

• Resource: Machines, licenses, etc. that are used by a Job

• Job: Application (also called: program, executable), with command line options, that uses resources to produce useful results. For example, Designer.exe –ng –BatchSolve …

• Serial Job: job that runs on a single core

• Parallel Job: job that runs on multiple cores (belonging to same or different machines)

• Compute Cluster: network of machines on which Jobs run. Typically, consists of head node(s) and many compute nodes

• Engine: Application (aka: executable) that is launched during analysis commands, to generate analysis results

• Multi-processing: A single engine uses multiple cores on the same machine

• Distributed-processing: Multiple engines are launched simultaneously (on same machine or different machines)

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