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Section: 1.4 Acronyms and abbreviations
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IA64 Instruction set Architecture 64 Intel 64-bit architecture, Itanium, EPIC
Infiniband A high speed interconnect standard available from a number of vendors
MPI Message Passing Interface - De-facto standard for message passing
Myrinet™ An interconnect developed by Myricom. Myrinet is the product name for the
hardware. (See GM).
NIC Network Interface Card
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
Power A generic term that cover the PowerPC and POWER processor families. These
processors are both 32 and 64 bit capable. The common case is to have a 64 bit
OS that support both 32 and 64 bit executables. See also PPC64
PowerPC The IBM/Motorola PowerPC processor family. See PPC64
POWER The IBM POWER processor family. Scali support the 4 and 5 versions. See
PPC64
PPC64 Abbreviation for PowerPC 64, which is the common 64 bit instruction set archi-
tecture(ISA) name used in Linux for the PowerPC and POWER processor fami-
lies. These processors have a common core ISA that allow one single Linux
version to be made for all three processor families.
RDMA Remote DMA Read or Write Data in a remote memory at a given address
ScaMPI Scali's MPI - First generation MPI Connect product, replaced by SMC
SCI Scalable Coherent Interface
SMC Scali MPI Connect - Scali's second generation MPI
SMI Scali Manage Install - OS installation part of Scali Manage
SSP Scali Software Platform is the name of the bundling of all Scali software pack-
ages.
SSP 3.x.y First generation SSP - WulfKit, Universe, Universe XE, ClusterEdge
SSP 4.x.y Second generation SSP - Scali Manage + SMC (option)
VAR Value Added Reseller
x86-64 see AMD64 and EM64T
Abbreviation Meaning
Table 1-1: Acronyms and abbreviations