Introduction

This appendix provides a list of acronyms, their meanings, and optional comments. The convention that has been used is to provide URLs to sites that can provide more information about technologies whose acronyms appear.

ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT
BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms http://www.netlib.org/blas/
BNF BackusNaur Form
CCA Common Component Architecture http://www.ccaforum.org/
COM Common Object Model http://www.microsoft.com/
DLL Dynamically Linked Library
DTD Document Type Definition Defines the grammar of the XML files.
HTML HyperText Markup Language http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
IOR Intermediate Object Representation
JNI Java Native Interface
OMG Object Management Group http://www.omg.org/
PIC Position Independent Code
SIDL Scientific Interface Definition Language
SO Shared Object
SPMD Single Program Multiple Data
SWIG Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator http://www.swig.org/
URL Uniform Resource Locater Often thought of as a pointer to a web resource.
XML Extensible Markup Language http://www.w3.org/XML/
VM Virtual Machine



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