IT & HPC Glossary

A comprehensive glossary of terms and definitions covering IT infrastructure, high-performance computing, enterprise storage, networking, and data center technologies.

F

Fibre Channel

A high-speed, lossless networking protocol for Storage Area Networks operating at up to 64 Gbps with guaranteed delivery.

FLOPS

Floating Point Operations Per Second — the standard measure of computing performance for scientific and HPC workloads, from GFLOPS to EFLOPS.