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Superconducting Technology Assessment - nitrd

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GLOSSARY<br />

BER Bit Error Rate<br />

CDR Critical Design Review<br />

TERMS/DEFINITIONS<br />

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor<br />

CNET Cryostatic NETwork<br />

CRAM Cryogenic RAM<br />

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<br />

DoD Department of Defense<br />

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

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

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

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

VLSI experiments.<br />

Gb Gigabit<br />

Gbps Gigabit per second<br />

GB GigaByte<br />

GFLOPS GigaFLOPS<br />

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

HEC High-End Computer<br />

HECRTF High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force<br />

HPCS High Productivity Computing Systems<br />

HRAM Holographic RAM<br />

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

IBM International Business Machines<br />

IC Integrated circuit or “chip”<br />

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