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Superconducting Technology Assessment - nitrd

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GLOSSARY<br />

TERMS/DEFINITIONS<br />

BER<br />

CDR<br />

CMOS<br />

CNET<br />

CRAM<br />

DARPA<br />

DoD<br />

DRAM<br />

FLOPS<br />

FLUX<br />

Gb<br />

Gbps<br />

GB<br />

GFLOPS<br />

GHz<br />

HEC<br />

HECRTF<br />

HPCS<br />

HRAM<br />

HTMT<br />

IBM<br />

IC<br />

Bit Error Rate<br />

Critical Design Review<br />

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor<br />

Cryostatic NETwork<br />

Cryogenic RAM<br />

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<br />

Department of Defense<br />

Dynamic RAM. Has relatively slow access time—in the tens<br />

of nanoseconds—but high memory density.<br />

Floating Point Operations Per Second. Used as a unit of performance.<br />

Not an acronym. This is the name of a series of superconducting electronics<br />

VLSI experiments.<br />

Gigabit<br />

Gigabit per second<br />

GigaByte<br />

GigaFLOPS<br />

Giga Hertz—one billion times per second<br />

High-End Computer<br />

High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force<br />

High Productivity Computing Systems<br />

Holographic RAM<br />

Hybrid <strong>Technology</strong> Multi-Threaded architecture<br />

International Business Machines<br />

Integrated circuit or “chip”<br />

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