February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
12h 48m
English
book
AI Data Center Network Design and Technologies
by Mahesh Subramaniam, Michal Styszynski, Himanshu Tambakuwala
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Appendix B
Acronyms
Acronym |
Acronym definition |
|---|---|
AALC |
Air Assisted Liquid Cooling – A cooling method using air and liquid for data center equipment. |
ACC |
Accelerator – Specialized hardware (e.g., GPU, TPU) designed to speed up AI/ML computations. |
AEC |
Active Electrical Cable – Copper cables with integrated electronics for high-speed data transfer. |
AFH |
AI Fabric Header – A protocol header used in Scale-Up Ethernet (SUE-T) for AI workloads. |
AI |
Artificial Intelligence – The simulation of human intelligence by machines. |
AIC |
AI Cluster – A group of interconnected servers for AI processing (context-dependent). |
AOC |
Active Optical Cable – Fiber optic cables with integrated transceivers for high-speed connections. |
API |
Application ... |
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