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Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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C

Acronyms and Abbreviations


ACTS

Advanced Communications Technology Satellite

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application programming interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASOP

Affordable Systems Optimization Process

ATM

Asynchronous transfer mode; Automated teller machine


C4I

Command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence

CAD

Computer-aided design

CAPS

Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms

CFD

Computational fluid dynamics

CIC

Committee on Information and Communications

CINCPAC

Commander in Chief, Pacific Command

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CSTB

Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

CT

Computerized tomography


DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DOD

Department of Defense


ECG

Electrocardiogram

EDI

Electronic data interchange

ERLink

Emergency Response Link

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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FCC

Federal Communications Commission

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FTP

File Transfer Protocol


GETS

Government Emergency Telecommunications Service

GII

Global information infrastructure

GIS

Geographic information system

GPS

Global positioning system


HF

High frequency

HPCCI

High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative

HPF

High Performance Fortran

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol


IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IP

Internet Protocol

I-WAY

Information Wide-Area Year


JTF

Joint task force

JWID

Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration


LAN

Local area network


MAD

Multidisciplinary analysis and design

MBONE

Multicast Backbone

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MLP

Multilevel precedence

MPI

Message passing interface

MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging


NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCS

National Communications System

NEXRAD

Next Generation Weather Radar

NII

National information infrastructure

NI/USR

National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NSF

National Science Foundation


OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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PC

Personal computer

PDES/STEP

Product Data Exchange using the Standard for the Exchange of Product model data

PIN

Personal identification number


R&D

Research and development

RFC

Request for Comments (Internet)


SITA

Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques

SQL

Structured Query Language


TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TSIMMIS

The Stanford-IBM Manager of Multiple Information Sources


UAV

Unmanned aerial vehicle

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

URN

Uniform Resource Name


VHF

Very high frequency

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VSAT

Very small aperture terminal


WAIS

Wide Area Information Service

WWW

World Wide Web

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1996. Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5280.
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This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC). It focuses on the role that computing and communications can play in supporting federal, state, and local emergency management officials who deal with natural and man-made hazards (e.g., toxic spills, terrorist bombings). The volume also identifies specific research challenges for HPCC in meeting unmet technology needs in crisis management and other nationally important application areas, such as manufacturing, health care, digital libraries, and electronic commerce and banking.

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