| API | Application Programming Interface. |
| ASM | Abstract Streaming Machine. |
| AST | Abstract Syntax Tree. |
| BLAS | Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms. |
| Cell B.E. | Cell Broadband Engine. |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit. |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph. |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform. |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access. |
| DSL | Domain-specific Language. |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor. |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform. |
| FIFO | First In First Out. |
| GCC | GNU Compiler Collection. |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format. |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit. |
| HD | High Definition. |
| ILP | Integer Linear Programming. |
| IO | Input/Output. |
| ISA | Instruction Set Architecture. |
| KPN | Kahn Process Network. |
| LAPACK | Linear Algebra Package. |
| LIFO | Last In First Out. |
| LS | Local Store. |
| Mercurium | Source-to-source compiler used by OmpSs. |
| Nanos++ | Runtime library for asynchronous task parallelism, which
supports multiple programming languages: StarSs, OpenMP, and Chapel. |
| OmpSs | An implementation of StarSs, which also supports the OpenMP standard.
The OmpSs compiler accepts both the StarSs syntax and the newer OmpSs syntax. The OmpSs
run-time system is built on Nanos++. |
| OS | Operating System. |
| PDG | Partial Dependency Graph. |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for Unix. |
| PPE | Power Processing Element. |
| SDF | Synchronous Data Flow. |
| SGMS | Stream Graph Modulo Scheduling. |
| SIMD | Single Instruction Multiple Data. |
| SMP | Symmetric Multiprocessor. |
| SPE | Synergistic Processing Element. |
| SPM | Stream Programming Model. |
| StarSs | Star Superscalar, an extension of C to support task-level parallelism. |
