scicomp/glossary: Scientific Computing terms

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+Glossary of scientific computing
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+.. glossary::
+   :sorted:
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+   Automated testing
+       See testing
+
+   Command line
+      The non graphical interface to the operating system, that allows to run system commands and other commands without needing graphical interaction. 
+   Computational complexity
+      Amount of resources (e.g. cpu-time, memory) required for an algorithm, often based on the number of input values. 
+   Documentation
+
+   git
+      Versioning system that allows you to keep track of changes and return to earlier versions of your code/documents. 
+   Linux
+      A type computer operating system that comes in many flavors.
+   Matlab
+      A programming language and graphical development environment created by Mathworks
+   Partition
+      A group of nodes in Slurm, used for scheduling and configuration.
+      For example, the "debug" partition, the "long" partition, etc.
+
+   Python
+
+```      A programming language popular with scientific computing.
+   R
+      A programming language popular in scientific programming
+   Research software engineering
+       A field of work which aims at improving and organizing code produced by researchers making it more sustainable and long lived.
+   Scientific Computing
+
+   Shell
+
+   Slurm
+      A commonly-used batch queuing system - a system that distributes
+      work to nodes on a high-performance computing cluster.
+
+   Software
+
+   Testing
+
+   Version control
+
+   X11, X-server
+      X11 is the UNIX graphics protocol.
+
+   X11 forwarding
+      When we talk of "X forwarding", we mean "allowing a program on some
+      remote computer to display graphics on your local computer"