Escali 4.4 manual Terms and conventions, Typographic conventions, GUI style font

Section: 1.5 Terms and conventions

1.5 Terms and conventions

Unless explicitly specified otherwise, gcc (gnu c-compiler) and bash (gnu Bourne-Again-SHell) are used in all examples.

Term	Description.
Node	A single computer in an interconnected system consisting of more than one com-
	puter
Cluster	A cluster is a set of interconnected nodes with the aim to act as one single unit
torus	greek word for ring, used in Scali documents in the context of 2- and 3-dimen-
	sional interconnect topologies
Scali system	A cluster consisting of Scali components
Front end	A computer outside the cluster nodes dedicated to run configuration, monitoring
	and licensing software
MPI process	Instance of application program with unique rank within MPI_COMM_WORLD
UNIX	Refers to all UNIX and lookalike OSes supported by the SSP, i.e. Solaris and
	Linux.
Windows	Refers to Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
	Table 1-2: Basic terms
1.6 Typographic conventions
Term	Description.
Bold	Program names, options and default values
Italics	User input
mono spaced	Computer related: Shell commands, examples, environment variables,
	file locations (directories) and contents
GUI style font	Refers to Menu, Button, check box or other items of a GUI
#	Command prompt in shell with super user privileges
%	Command prompt in shell with normal user privileges
	Table 1-3: Typographic conventions

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