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AMD Air Moving Device. See MDA,

API Application Programming Interface

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

BPA Bulk Power Assembly

BPC Bulk Power Controller

BPR Bulk Power Regulator

CEC Central Electronics Complex.

CSM Cluster Systems Management

CSS Communication Support

Subsystem (switch)

CUoD Capacity Upgrade on Demand

DCA-F Distributed Conversion Assembly

for Federation

ESS Enterprise Storage Server

FNM Federation Network Manager

FRU Field Replaceable Unit

GFW General Firmware (Regatta)

GPFS General Parallel File System (also

known as multimedia filesystem)

HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi

Processing

HMC Hardware Maintenance Console

HPS The shortest name for “IBM eServer

pSeries High Performance Switch”.

This is also known as the “pSeries

HPS.”

HSC Hardware Service Console (same

as HMC)

IBM International Business Machines

Corporation

IP Internet Protocol

IPAT IP Address Takeover

ISB Intermediate Switch Board

ITSO International Technical Support

Organization

K-LAPI Kernel LAPI

LAPI Low level Application Programming

Interface

LPAR Logical partition

MCM Multi Chip Module

MDA Motor Drive Assembly.

MDS Microcode Descovery Service

Abbreviations and acronyms

MIF Microcode Image File.

ML maintenance level, used for

defining a set of PTFs installed on

the AIX machine

MPI Message Passing Interface

MPM Mechanism Pluggable Module

NIC Network Interface Card

NIM Network Install Manager

NSB Node Switch Board

NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access

OS Operating system

PE Parallel Environment

POST Power On Self Test

POWER Performance Optimization With

Enhanced RISC

PPC&C Product Packaging, Power and

Cooling.

PSSP Parallel Systems Support Program

PTF Program Temporary Fix

RIO Remote I/O

RMC Resource Monitoring and Control

RPA RS/6000 Platform Architecture

RPD RSCT Peer Domain

RSCT Reliable Scalable Cluster

Technology

RTAS Runtime Abstarction Services

RVSD Recoverable Virtual Shared Disk

SMA Shared Memory Adapter

SNI Switch Network Interface

SP System Parallel

SPCC Switch Port Connector Cards

SPCN System Power Control Network

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TOD Time of Day

UDP Universal Datagram Protocol

VMM Virtual Memory Manager (part of

kernel subsystem in AIX)

VPD Vital Product Data

VSD Virtual Shared Disk

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