LASER Terminology

LASER

Light Agent Spatial modeling for ERadication

CCS

Critical Community Size

CUDA

"CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on graphical processing units (GPUs)."

EULA

Epedimiologically Uninteresting Light Agent

Julia

"Julia is a high-level, general-purpose dynamic programming language, most commonly used for numerical analysis and computational science."

Numba

"Numba is a just-in-time compiler for Python that works best on code that uses NumPy arrays and functions, and loops."

NumPy

"NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python."

PyCUDA

"PyCUDA gives you easy, Pythonic access to Nvidia’s CUDA parallel computation API."

SIR

Susceptible - Infectious - Recovered (Removed) model

SEIR

Susceptible - Eposed - Infectious - Recovered (Removed) model

SQL

"Structured Query Language (SQL) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS)."

Taichi

"Taichi is a domain-specific language embedded in Python that helps you easily write portable, high-performance parallel programs."