Terminology and Acronyms

API

Application Programming Interface

CPU

Central Processing Unit

GPGPU

General-Purpose computing Graphics Processing Unit

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HPC

High-Performance Computing

HTTP

Hypertext Transport Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure

RST

ReStructured Text (RST) is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plain text markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. RST is designed for extensibility for specific application domains. The RST parser is a component of Docutils.

Sphinx

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages.

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator