Glossary
From FaHWiki
Like may sites, the folding-community forums have developed some commonly used expressions. This may discourage new folks until they get used to them, but there's no real way to avoid the terms, so here are some of the common ones. These are separate from the actual scientific terms (below).
| Term | Explanation |
| AS | Assignment Server - A server which assigns a client to a Work Server. |
| C2D | Intel Core 2 Duo - Not strictly folding related, but used often on the folding-community forums |
| Core | An ambiguous word. For clarity, it is better to use "FAHcore" or "CPUcore". Originally, one of the analysis methods used by FAH (because of their names FahCore_XX.exe). More recently, a fully functional processor - generally used where two or more cores are on a single chip. |
| CS | Collection Server - A server specifically configured to accept uploads which, for some reason, cannot be uploaded to the primary WS (see below). |
| DC | Distributed Computing |
| EUE | Early Unit End |
| FAH or F@H | The Folding At Home project. |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit. The 'brains' designed to suppliment the CPU by offloading much of the work of generating complex images on your screen. Now being used as a specialized processor to speed up FAH. (Also GPGPU - General Purpose GPU, to indicate that it's not just for graphics any more.) |
| PPD | Points Per Day - One method of estimating the productivity / speed of a computer. (Also PPW or PPH, depending on the time interval.) |
| Server .151 (or other numbers) | One of the Stanford servers with an IP address ending with that value (Specifically, server VSPMF84 with IP = 171.65.103.151, although in some cases this may be ambiguous). See the left hand column of http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html |
| SMP | Symmetric MultiProcessing (multi-core CPUs and the like) |
| TPF | Time Per Frame. How long it takes for one frame, or one percent of a work unit, to complete. |
| WS | Work Server - A FAH server which distributes work and accepts results for several FAH projects. |
| WU | Work Unit - an assigned unit of work for the folding project. |
| X2 | AMD Athlon 64 X2 (See C2D above). |
The link below gives explanations for words used throughout the education pages. The terms are relevant for the science of FAH.
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