Glossary for terms

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During our meeting, we wanted to make sure our terms for certain things were consistent.

Reference docs for sphinx glossaries: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/directives.html#directive-glossary

Please add on to here a running list of terms that should be defined.

• exposition only (e.g., ALLOC_PROP, AllocProperties)
  • implementation defined
• Execution Space (make definitive, rather than descriptive)
• Memory Space
• Kokkos Concepts
• Copying: "deep copy," "shallow copy"
• HostMirror; mirroring as a (human) concept
  • Compatible View, Compatible Layout (?)
• Accessibility (see https://kokkos.github.io/kokkos-core-wiki/API/core/SpaceAccessibility.html)
• (Execution) Policy - HOW you'd like your computation to execute
  • Range
  • Team Policy (link to hierarchical parallelism)
• Kernel (common for GPU computing but can also be overloaded with mathematical terms)
• Commonly used Macros that are not configuration macros:
  • KOKKOS_FUNCTION
  • KOKKOS_INLINE_FUNCTION
  • KOKKOS_LAMBDA
  • KOKKOS_DEFAULTED_FUNCTION
  • etc.

• TODO:
  • In Friday (KUG 2023) feedback session, ask what was difficult, confusing, etc. for you when starting with Kokkos?