Intel® Server Board M10JNP2SB User Guide
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Glossary
Advanced configuration and power interface
Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions
Intel® Active Management Technology
Basic input output system; non-volatile firmware
Baseboard management controller
A boot strap processor that is selected at boot time to be the primary processor in a multi-processor
system.
Casing containing the server board, fans and power supply
Complimentary Metal-oxide-semiconductor
Compatibility support module
Direct current, the flow of electric charge in only one direction.
Dual inline memory module
Driver execution environment, a component of Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI
architecture.
Integrated memory controller, a memory controller integrated into the processor chip
Intelligent platform management bus
Keyboard, video, and mouse, an attachment that mimics those devices and connects them to a remote
I/O user.
Non-volatile random access memory
Original equipment manufacturer
Peripheral component interconnect, or CI local bus standard a.k.a. “Conventional PCI”
Peripheral component interconnect express, an updated form of PCI offering better throughput and
error management
Pre EFI initialization, a component of the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI architecture
Power on self test, the BIOS activity from Power On until the OS bot starts
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. These provide data security by spreading data over multiple
disk drives. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 are different patterns of data on varying numbers of
disks to provide varying degrees of security and performance.
Reliability, availability, and serviceability
Serial ATA, a high speed serial data version of the disk ATA interface
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