Terminology

Terminology	Definition
artifact	Elementary component with a file representation and associated JSON meta-information
repository	Collection of artifacts on the file system
action	Operation that can be performed on artifact(s)

Artifacts	Definition
benchmark	Abstract algorithm that performs a useful numerical task
build	Runnable implementation that is ready to be executed on an environment and the configuration that was used to create it
compiler	Program that processes a benchmark implementation to produce a new implementation (in the same or a different language)
configuration	Combination of artifacts and their associated parameters necessary for performing an action
environment	Additional virtualization layer executing on top of a platform (or another environment) a benchmark might execute on
experiment	Combination of a configuration and experimental parameters that determine what, where, and how an implementation is to be executed
implementation	Realization of a benchmark in a specific language (ex: C, assembly) and packaged in a particular format (ex: text file, binary, webpage) which might be directly runnable or not
platform	Hardware and (native) OS combination for the machine to run benchmarks on
report	Collection of figure(s) and the configuration that was used to produce them
run	Execution report (ex: timing results, memory usage, etc.) and the experiment that produced it

Actions	Definition
building	Creation, from a configuration, of an implementation that is executable on an environment
installing	Retrieval, and initialization of an artifact in the repository
reporting	Aggregation of multiple compatible runs, selection of significant results, and production of human-readable figure(s) from those results
running	Execution of an implementation on a stack of environment(s), and production of a run from the monitoring of its execution