Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM 88553RX Installation Manual

Abbreviations and acronyms

ABI Application Binary Interface
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface
ACT Advanced Connectivity Technology
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API application programming interface
AS advanced server
ASM advanced system management
ASMA Advanced System Management Adapter
ASR automatic server restart
ATS Advanced Technical Support
AWE Advanced Windowing Extensions
BI business intelligence
BSP bootstrap processor
CAD computer-aided drawing
CAE computer-aided engineering
CD-ROM compact disc-read only memory
CERN Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche
Nucleaire
CIM Common Information Model
CNA Certified NetWare Administrator
CPU central processing unit
CRM customer relationship management
DDR double data rate
DDS digital data storage
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DLT Digital Linear Tape
DNS Domain Name System
DOS disk operating system
DRDA Distributed Relational Database
Architecture
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved.
EB Exabytes
ECC error checking and correcting
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
EL Enterprise Linux
EMC electromagnetic compatibility
EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
ER Enterprise Rack
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ESCON enterprise systems connection
ESP EFI System Partition
ESS Enterprise Storage Server
FAT file allocation table
FC Fibre Channel
FICON™ Fiber Connection
GAS GNU Assembler
GB gigabyte
GCC GNU Compiler Collection
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GPT GUID Partition Table
GUI graphical user interface
GUID global unique identifier
HA high availability
HAL hardware abstraction layer
HBA host bus adapter
HCL hardware compatibility list
HP Hewlett Packard
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission
ILP instruction-level parallelism
IPC interprocess communications
IPF Itanium Processor Family
ISA industry standard architecture
201