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 \chapterauthor{Sylvain Contassot-Vivier}{Université Lorraine, Loria UMR 7503 \& AlGorille INRIA Project Team, Nancy, France.}
 \chapterauthor{Stephane Vialle}{SUPELEC, UMI GT-CNRS 2958 \& AlGorille INRIA Project Team, Metz, France.}
-\chapterauthor{Jens Gustedt}{INRIA Nancy -- Grand Est, AlGorille INRIA Project Team, Strasbourg, France.}
+\chapterauthor{Jens Gustedt}{INRIA Nancy--Grand Est, AlGorille INRIA Project Team, Strasbourg, France.}
 
 \chapter{Development methodologies for GPU and cluster of GPUs}
 
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 % Glossaire
 \section{Glossary}
 \begin{Glossary}
-\item[AIAC] Asynchronous Iterations - Asynchronous Communications.
-\item[Asynchronous iterations] Iterative process where each element is updated
+\item[AIAC] Asynchronous Iterations and Asynchronous Communications.
+\item[Asynchronous iterations] iterative process where each element is updated
   without waiting for the last updates of the other elements.
-\item[Auxiliary computations] Optional computations performed in parallel to the
+\item[Auxiliary computations] optional computations performed in parallel to the
   main computations and used to complete them or speed them up.
-\item[BSP parallel scheme] Bulk Synchronous Parallel, a parallel model that uses
-  a repeated pattern (superstep) composed of: computation, communication, barrier.
-\item[GPU stream] Serialized data transfers and computations performed on a same
+\item[BSP parallel scheme] bulk Synchronous Parallel, a parallel model that uses
+  a repeated pattern (superstep) composed of computation, communication, barrier.
+\item[GPU stream] serialized data transfers and computations performed on a same
   piece of data.
-\item[Message loss/miss] Can be said about a message that is either not
+\item[Message loss/miss] can be said about a message that is either not
   sent or sent but not received (possible with unreliable communication protocols).
-\item[Message stamping] Inclusion of a specific value in messages of the same tag to
+\item[Message stamping] inclusion of a specific value in messages of the same tag to
   distinguish them (kind of secondary tag).
-\item[ORWL] Ordered Read Write Locks, a programming tool proposing a unified
+\item[ORWL] Ordered Read-Write Locks, a programming tool proposing a unified
   programming model.
-\item[Page-locked data] Data that are locked in cache memory to ensure fast accesses.
-\item[Residual] Difference between results of consecutive iterations in an
+\item[Page-locked data] data that are locked in cache memory to ensure fast accesses.
+\item[Residual] difference between results of consecutive iterations in an
   iterative process.
 \item[Streamed GPU sequence] GPU transfers and computations performed
   simultaneously via distinct GPU streams.