Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM 88743BU - System x3950 E User Manual

Abbreviations and acronyms

ABR Automatic BIOS recovery
AC alternating current
ACPI Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface
AEM Active Energy Manager
AMD Advanced Micro Devices™
ANSI American National Standards
Institute
API application programming
interface
AS Australian Standards
ASCII American Standard Code for
Information Interchange
ASIC application-specific integrated
circuit
ASM Advanced System
Management
ASPM Active State Power
Management
ASR automatic server restart
AWE Address Windowing
Extensions
BBU battery backup unit
BCD Boot Configuration Database
BGI background initialization
BI Business Intelligence
BIOS basic input output system
BMC Baseboard Management
Controller
CC consistency check
CD compact disc
CD-ROM compact disc read only
memory
CIM Common Information Model
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CIMOM Common Information Model
Object Manager
CLI command-line interface
COA Certificate of Authenticity
COG configuration and option guide
COM Component Object Model
CPU central processing unit
CRM Customer Relationship
Management
CRTM Core Root of Trusted
Measurements
CTO configure-to-order
CTP composite theoretical
performance
DASD direct access storage device
DBA database administrator
DBS demand-based switching
DC domain controller
DCU data cache unit
DCUI Direct Console User Interface
DDR Double Data Rate
DEP Data Execution Prevention
DG disk group
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DMA direct memory access
DNS Domain Name System
DOS disk operating system
DPC deferred procedure call
DPM Distributed Power
Management
DRAM dynamic random access
memory
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