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\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Abbreviations}
\begin{abbreviations}
-%\item[ADC] Analog to Digital Converters
-%\item[AIMMS] Advanced Interactive Multidimensional Modeling System
-%\item[AMPL] A Mathematical Programming Language
-\item[]
-%\item[WSNL] Wireless Sensor Node Leader
+\item[AIAC] \textbf{A}synchronous \textbf{I}terations and \textbf{A}synchronous \textbf{C}ommunications
+\item[BLP] \textbf{B}it \textbf{L}evel \textbf{P}arallelism
+\item[BT] \textbf{B}lock \textbf{T}ridiagonal
+\item[CG] \textbf{C}onjugate \textbf{G}radient
+\item[CPU] \textbf{C}entral \textbf{P}rocessing \textbf{U}nit
+\item[CUDA] \textbf{C}ompute \textbf{U}nified \textbf{D}evice \textbf{A}rchitecture
+\item[DLP] \textbf{D}ata \textbf{L}evel \textbf{P}arallelism
+\item[DVFS] \textbf{D}ynamic \textbf{V}oltage and \textbf{F}requency \textbf{S}caling
+\item[EDP] \textbf{E}nergy and \textbf{D}elay \textbf{P}roduct
+\item[EP] \textbf{E}mbarrassingly \textbf{P}arallel
+\item[EPSA] \textbf{E}nergy and \textbf{P}erformance \textbf{S}caling \textbf{A}lgorithm
+\item[FLOPS] \textbf{Fl}oating-point \textbf{O}perations \textbf{P}er \textbf{S}econd
+\item[FT] Fast \textbf{F}ourier \textbf{T}ransform
+\item[GMRES] \textbf{G}eneral \textbf{M}inimum \textbf{Res}idual
+\item[GPU] \textbf{G}raphical \textbf{P}rocessing \textbf{U}nit
+\item[HSA] \textbf{H}eterogeneous \textbf{S}caling \textbf{A}lgorithm
+\item[ILP] \textbf{I}nstruction \textbf{L}evel \textbf{P}arallelism
+\item[LAN] \textbf{L}ocal \textbf{A}rea \textbf{N}etwork
+\item[LLP] \textbf{L}oop \textbf{L}evel \textbf{P}arallelism
+\item[LU] \textbf{L}ower-\textbf{U}pper
+\item[MaxDist] \textbf{Max}imum \textbf{Dist}ance
+\item[MG] \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{G}rid
+\item[MIMD] \textbf{M}ultiple \textbf{I}nstruction and \textbf{M}ultiple \textbf{D}ata
+\item[MISD] \textbf{M}ultiple \textbf{I}nstruction and \textbf{S}ingle \textbf{D}ata
+\item[MPI] \textbf{M}essage \textbf{P}assing \textbf{I}nterface
+\item[MPICH] \textbf{M}essage \textbf{P}assing \textbf{I}nterface of \textbf{Ch}ameleon
+\item[MS] \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{S}plitting
+\item[NAS] \textbf{N}umerical \textbf{A}eronautical \textbf{S}imulation
+\item[NASA] \textbf{N}ational \textbf{A}eronautics and \textbf{S}pace \textbf{A}dministrations
+\item[OPENCL] \textbf{Open} \textbf{C}omputing \textbf{L}anguage
+\item[OPENMP] \textbf{Open} \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{P}rocessing
+\item[RENATER] \textbf{Ré}seau \textbf{Na}tional de \textbf{T}élécommunications pour la \textbf{T}echnologie, \newline\hspace*{3em}
+ l'\textbf{E}nseignement et la \textbf{R}echerche
+\item[SIAC] \textbf{S}ynchronous \textbf{I}terations and \textbf{A}synchronous \textbf{C}ommunications
+\item[SIMD] \textbf{S}ingle \textbf{I}nstruction and \textbf{M}ultiple \textbf{D}ata
+\item[SISC] \textbf{S}ynchronous \textbf{I}terations and \textbf{S}ynchronous \textbf{C}ommunications
+\item[SISD] \textbf{S}ingle \textbf{I}nstruction and \textbf{S}ingle \textbf{D}ata
+\item[SP] \textbf{S}calar \textbf{P}entadiagonal
+\item[TLP] \textbf{T}hread \textbf{L}evel \textbf{P}arallelism
+\item[WAN] \textbf{W}ide \textbf{A}rea \textbf{N}etwork
\end{abbreviations}
