List of Abbreviations

ABI: Application Binary Interface
AC: Alternating Current
ADSM: ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
ADSTAR: Advanced Storage and Retrieval
AIX: Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report
ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
ASCII: American National Standards Code for Information Interchange
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BFF: Backup File Format
BOS: Base Operating System
BI: Business Intelligence
BIST: Built-In Self-Test
BLAS: Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
BOS: Base Operating System
CAE: Computer-Aided Engineering
CAD: Computer-Aided Design
CAM: Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CATIA: Computer-Graphics Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application
CD: Compact Disk
CD-ROM: Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CE: Customer Engineer
CEC: Central Electronics Complex
CHRP: Common Hardware Reference Platform
CLIO/S: Client Input/Output Sockets
CMOS: Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COLD: Computer Output to Laser Disk
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSR: Customer Service Representative
CSS: Communication Subsystems Support
CSU: Customer Set-Up
CSU: Channel Service Unit
CWS: Control Workstation
DAS: Dual Attach Station
DASD: Direct Access Storage Device (Disk)
DAT: Digital Audio Tape
DC: Direct Current
DDC: Display Data Channel
DDS: Digital Data Storage
DE: Dual-Ended
DFS: Distributed File System
DIMM: Dual In-Line Memory Module
DIP: Direct Insertion Probe
DIVA: Digital Inquiry Voice Answer
DLT: Digital Linear Tape
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DOS: Disk Operating System
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSU: Data Service Unit
DW: Data Warehouse
EC: Engineering Change
ECC: Error Checking and Correction
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EIA: Electronics Industry Association
EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture
ELA: Error Log Analysis
EMIF: ESCON Multiple Image Facility
EPOW: Environmental and Power Warning
ESCON: Enterprise Systems Connection (Architecture, IBM System/390)
ESSL: Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library
ETML: Extract, Transformation, Movement and Loading
F/C: Feature Code
FC-AL: Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDX: Full Duplex
FRU: Field Replaceable Unit
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
F/W: Fast and Wide
GPFS: General Parallel File System
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi Processing
HACWS: High Availability Control Workstation
HDX: Half Duplex
HIPPI: High Performance Parallel Interface
HiPS: High Performance Switch
HiPS LC-8: Low-Cost Eight-Port High Performance Switch
HP: Hewlett-Packard
HPF: High Performance FORTRAN
HPSSDL: High Performance Supercomputer Systems Development Laboratory
HP-UX: Hewlett-Packard UNIX
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hz: Hertz
IA: Intel Architecture
ID: Identification
IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
IDS: Intelligent Decision Server
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
I2C: Inter Integrated-Circuit Communications
I/O: Input/Output
IP: Internetwork Protocol (OSI)
IPL: Initial Program Load
IrDA: Infrared Data Association (which sets standards for infrared support including protocols for data interchange)
IRQ: Interrupt Request
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISB: Intermediate Switch Board
ISDN: Integrated-Services Digital Network
ISV: Independent Software Vendor
ITSO: International Technical Support Organization
JBOD: Just a Bunch of Disks
JFS: Journaled File System
JTAG: Joint Test Action Group
L1: Level 1
L2: Level 2
LAN: Local Area Network
LANE: Local Area Network Emulation
LAPI: Low-Level Application Programming Interface
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LFT: Low Function Terminal
LP: Linear Programming
LPP: Licensed Program Product
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
MAP: Maintenance Analysis Procedure
MAU: Multiple Access Unit
Mbps: Megabits Per Second
MBps: Megabytes Per Second
MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
MCAD: Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
MES: Miscellaneous Equipment Specification
MIP: Mixed-Integer Programming
MLR1: Multi-Channel Linear Recording 1
MMF: Multi-Mode Fibre
MP: Multiprocessor
MP: Multi-Purpose
MPC-3: Multimedia PC-3
MPI: Message Passing Interface
MPP: Massively Parallel Processing
MPS: Mathematical Programming System
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
MVS: Multiple Virtual Storage (IBM System 370 and 390)
MX: Mezzanine Bus
NCP: Network Control Point
NFS: Network File System
NIM: Network Installation Manager
NT-1: Network Terminator-1
NTP: Network Time Protocol
NUMA: Non-Uniform Memory Access
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
OCS: Online Customer Support
ODM: Object Data Manager
OLAP: Online Analytical Processing
OS/390: Operating System/390
OSL: Optimization Subroutine Library
OSLp: Parallel Optimization Subroutine Library
P2SC: Power2 Super Chip
PAP: Privileged Access Password
PBLAS: Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDU: Power Distribution Unit
PE: Parallel Environment
PEDB: Parallel Environment Debugging
PID: Program Identification
PIOFS: Parallel Input Output File System
POE: Parallel Operating Environment
POP: Power-On Password
POSIX: Portable Operating Interface for Computing Environments
POST: Power-On Self-test
POWER: Performance Optimization with Enhanced Risc (Architecture)
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
PREP: PowerPC Reference Platform
PSSP: Parallel System Support Program
PTF: Program Temporary Fix
PTPE: Performance Toolbox Parallel Extensions
PTX: Performance Toolbox
PV: Physical Volume
PVC: Permanent Virtual Circuit
QMF: Query Management Facility
QP: Quadratic Programming
RAM: Random Access Memory
RAN: Remote Asynchronous Node
RAS: Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RDBMS: Relational Database Management System
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load
ROLTP: Relative Online Transaction Processing
RPA: RS/6000 Platform Architecture
RVSD: Recoverable Virtual Shared Disk
RTC: Real-Time Clock
SAN: Storage Area Network
SAS: Single Attach Station
SAR: Solutions Assurance Review
ScaLAPACK: Scalable Linear Algebra Package
SCO: Santa Cruz Operations
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SDR: System Data Repository
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
SE: Single-Ended
SEPBU: Scalable Electrical Power Base Unit
SGI: Silicon Graphics Incorporated
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLR1: Single-Channel Linear Recording 1
SMIT: System Management Interface Tool
SMS: System Management Services
SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing
SOI: Silicon-on-Insulator
SP: Scalable POWERParallel
SP: Service Processor
SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.
SPOT: Shared Product Object Tree
SPS: SP Switch
SPS-8: Eight-Port SP Switch
SRC: System Resource Controller
SSC: System Support Controller
SSA: Serial Storage Architecture
STP: Shielded Twisted Pair
SUP: Software Update Protocol
SVC: Switch Virtual Circuit
Tcl: Tool Command Language
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCQ: Tagged Command Queuing
TPC: Transaction Processing Council
UDB EEE: Universal Database and Enterprise Extended Edition
UP: Uniprocessor
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UTP: Unshielded Twisted Pair
UUCP: UNIX-to-UNIX Communication Protocol
VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association
VG: Volume Group
VM: Virtual Machine (IBM System 370 and 390)
VMM: Virtual Memory Manager
VPD: Vital Product Data
VSD: Virtual Shared Disk
VSM: Visual Systems Management
VSS: Versatile Storage Server
VT: Visualization Tool
WAN: Wide Area Network
WTE: Web Traffic Express
XTF: Extended Distance Feature

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