Glossary

Abbreviations	Full names	Definition
CUDA	Compute Unified Device Architecture	NVIDIA’s framework for using their GPUs.
GCC	GNU Compiler Collection	A collection of open-source compilers (C, Fortran, Go, etc) developed by the Free Software Foundation.
IR	Intermediate Representation	The data structure or code used internally by a compiler or virtual machine to represent source code
ISA	Instruction Set Architecture	The set of instructions, datatypes and registers that defines how software controls the CPU in a computer. Among famous ISAs, there are ARM, x86 and RISC-V.
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit	An accelerator that is characterized by its parallel architecture. Among main manufacturers, one may find Intel, AMD and NVIDIA.
SIMD	single instruction multiple data	It describes computers with multiple processing elements that perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously.