bachelor-thesis/thesis/own.gls

\newglossaryentry{iommu}{
    short={IOMMU},
    name={IOMMU},
    long={Input/Output Memory Management Unit},
    first={Input/Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{iommu}:} Hardware component responsible for mapping memory addresses for peripheral devices performing Direct Memory Access (DMA). May also provide memory protection mechanisms.}
}

\newglossaryentry{dsa}{
    short={DSA},
    name={DSA},
    long={Intel Data Streaming Accelerator},
    first={Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa}:} A component of modern Intel server processors, capable of executing common data operations asynchronously and thereby offloading them from the CPU.}
}

\newglossaryentry{dsa:wq}{
    short={WQ},
    name={WQ},
    long={Work Queue},
    first={Work Queue (WQ)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:wq}:} Architectural component of the \gls{dsa} to which data is submitted by the user. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail on its function.}
}

\newglossaryentry{dsa:swq}{
    short={SWQ},
    name={SWQ},
    long={Shared Work Queue},
    first={Shared Work Queue (SWQ)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:swq}:} A type of Work Queue to which submissions are implicitly synchronized, allowing safe usage from multiple processes. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail.}
}

\newglossaryentry{dsa:dwq}{
    short={DWQ},
    name={DWQ},
    long={Dedicated Work Queue},
    first={Dedicated Work Queue (DWQ)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:dwq}:} A type of Work Queue only usable by one process, and therefore with potentially lower submission overhead. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail.}
}

\newglossaryentry{x86:pasid}{
    short={PASID},
    name={PASID},
    long={Process Address Space ID},
    first={Process Address Space ID (PASID)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{x86:pasid}:} Identifier used by the \glsentryshort{dsa} in conjunction with the \glsentryshort{iommu} to resolve virtual addresses. See Section \ref{subsubsec:state:dsa-vaddr}.}
}

\newglossaryentry{intel:dml}{
    short={Intel DML},
    name={Intel DML},
    long={Intel Data Mover Library},
    first={Intel Data Mover Library (Intel DML)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{intel:dml}:} A library presenting a high-level interface with the \glsentryshort{dsa}. View the usage example in Section \ref{sec:state:dml} or the library documentation \cite{intel:dmldoc} for further information.}
}

\newglossaryentry{numa}{
    short={NUMA},
    name={NUMA},
    long={Non-Uniform Memory Architecture},
    first={Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{numa}:} Describes a system architecture organized into different Nodes with each node observing different access patterns to memory for the available address range.}
}

\newglossaryentry{numa:node}{
    short={Node},
    name={Node},
    long={NUMA-Node},
    first={NUMA-Node (Node)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{numa:node}:} A Node in a NUMA-system. See the Entry for NUMA for an explanation of both.}
}

\newglossaryentry{hbm}{
    short={HBM},
    name={HBM},
    long={High Bandwidth Memory},
    first={High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{hbm}:} Main memory technology, consisting of stacked DRAM-dies. Section \ref{sec:state:hbm} offers more detail.}
}

\newglossaryentry{dram}{
    short={DDR-SDRAM},
    name={DDR-SDRAM},
    long={Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory},
    first={Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDR-SDRAM)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dram}:} Main memory technology found in common computer systems.}
}

\newglossaryentry{qdp}{
    short={QdP},
    name={QdP},
    long={Query-driven Prefetching},
    first={Query-driven Prefetching (QdP)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{qdp}:} Methodology to determine database columns worth prefetching to cache in order to accelerate a queries. Described in Section \ref{sec:state:qdp}.}
}

\newglossaryentry{mempress}{
    short={memory pressure},
    name={Memory Pressure},
    long={Memory Pressure},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{mempress}:} Situation where high memory utilization is encountered.}
}

\newglossaryentry{api}{
    short={API},
    name={API},
    long={Application Programming Interface},
    first={Application Programming Interface (API)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{api}:} Definition of the interface provided by an application, enabling interaction between software components or systems.}
}

\newglossaryentry{nvram}{
    short={NVRAM},
    name={NVRAM},
    long={Non-Volatile RAM},
    first={Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM)},
    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{nvram}:} Main memory technology which, unlike \glsentryshort{dram}, retains data when without power.}
}