IBM NeXtScale System User Manual

240 IBM NeXtScale System Planning and Implementation Guide
GPFS General Parallel File System
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GSS GPFS Storage Server
GT Gigatransfers
GUI graphical user interface
HBA host bus adapter
HCA host channel adapter
HDD hard disk drive
HDFS
HFI
HMC Hardware Management
Console
HPC high performance computing
HPCT
HPL
HSS
I/O input/output
I/OAT I/O Acceleration Technology
IB InfiniBand
IB/E
IBM International Business
Machines
ID identifier
IDE integrated drive electronics
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
II
III
IMM integrated management
module
IMPI
IOPS I/O operations per second
IP Internet Protocol
IPMI Intelligent Platform
Management Interface
ISO International Organization for
Standards
IT information technology
ITSO International Technical
Support Organization
JBOD just a bunch of disks
KB kilobyte
KCO KVM Conversion Option
KVM keyboard video mouse
KW Kilowatt
LAN local area network
LAPI Low-level application
programming interface
LCD liquid crystal display
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
LED light emitting diode
LFF large form factor
LLC last level cache
LP low profile
LRDIMM load-reduced DIMM
LSB least significant bit
LSF Load Sharing Facility
LSO large send offload
MAC media access control
MB megabyte
MDS
Multilayer Director Switch
MLC multi-level cell
MPI Message Passing Interface
MSB most significant bit
MTM machine type model
NEMA National Electrical
Manufacturers Association
NFS network file system
NIC network interface card
NTP Network Time Protocol

IBM NeXtScale System Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	NeXtScale System
Category	Server
Language	English