| AC | Alternating current |
| CG | Conjugate gradient |
| CPMexe | Cycles per micro-operations retired excluding the memory accesses in a second |
| CPU | Central processing unit |
| DC | Direct current |
| DDI | Distributed data interface |
| DRAM | Dynamic random access memory |
| DVFS | Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling |
| EP | Embarrassingly parallel |
| ERI | Electron repulsion integrals |
| FLOPs | Floating point operations per second |
| FMO | Fragmental molecular orbital |
| FT | Fast Fourier transform |
| GAMESS | General atomic and molecular electronic structure system |
| L3APM | L3 cache accesses per micro-operation retired |
| MAPM | Memory accesses per micro-operation retired |
| MIPS | Million instructions per second |
| MPI | Message passing interface |
| MSR | Model specific register |
| OOO | Out-of-order |
| PE | Processing element |
| QPI | Quick path interconnect |
| RAPL | Running average power limit |
| SCF-HF | Self consistent field hartree fock |
| SP | Scalar pentadiagonal |
| TCP/IP | Transport control protocol/Internet protocol |
| UFS | Uncore frequency scaling |