Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Manual

Abbreviations and acronyms

ac alternating current
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AIK Automated Installation Kit
AMM Advanced Management Module
API application programming interface
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller
ASU Advanced Settings Utility
BC BladeCenter
BCD Boot Configuration Database
BIOS basic input output system
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
BoMC Bootable Media Creator
BS Blue Screen
CAS column address strobe
CD compact disc
CIM Common Information Model
CKE Clock Enable
CKVM Concurrent KVM
CLI command-line interface
CMOS complementary metal oxide
semiconductor
CNA Converged Network Adapter
COD configure on disk
COG configuration and option guide
COM Component Object Model
CPU central processing unit
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRU customer-replaceable units
CTO configure-to-order
DAU demand acceleration unit
DB database
DDF Disk Data Format
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DMA direct memory access
DNS Domain Name System
DPC deferred procedure call
DRAM dynamic random access memory
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DSA Dynamic System Analysis
ECC error checking and correcting
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance
EMS Emergency Messaging Service
ER enterprise rack
ESA Electronic Service Agent
ESD electrostatic discharge
ETS Enhanced Technical Support
EXA Enterprise X-Architecture
FAMM Full Array Memory Mirroring
FC Fibre Channel
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FRU field-replaceable unit
GB gigabyte
GPT GUID Partition Table
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader
GT Gigatransfers
GUI graphical user interface
HBA host bus adapter
HDD hard disk drive
HE high end
HPC high performance computing
HPCBP High Performance Computing
Basic Profile
HPET High Precision Event Timer
HS hot swap
HT Hyper-Threading
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I/O input/output
IBM International Business Machines
ID identifier
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
IM instant messaging
IME Integrated Mirroring Enhanced
IMM Integrated Management Module
IOPS I/O operations per second
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