IBM International Business Machines
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive (Advanced IBM uniX)
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive (Advanced IBM uniX)
POWER Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing
SCSI Small computer Simple Interface
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
MCA Micro Channel Architectural
CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform
SMP Symmetric Multi Processor
PSSP Parallel System Support Programs
LPAR Logical PARtition
HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi Processing
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
MCA Micro Channel Architectural
CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform
SMP Symmetric Multi Processor
PSSP Parallel System Support Programs
LPAR Logical PARtition
HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi Processing
RSCT Really Scalable ( RS6000) Cluster Technology
P2SC POWER2 Super Chips
RAS Releability Availability Serviceability
SMP Symmetric Multi Processing
NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access
MPP Massively Parallel Processing
CMP Chip Multi Processing
CAD Computer Aided Design
CWS Controll Work Station
ISB Intermediate Switch Boards
SDR System Data Depository
PVM Parallel Virtual Machine
MPI Message Passing Interface
HPF High Performance FORTRAN
HMC Hardware Management Console
ASM Advanced System Management
NIM Network Installation Manager
LPP Licenced program Product
BOS Base Operating System
APAR Authorized program Analysis Report
SMS System Management Services
SRC System Resource Controller
JFS Journaled File System
JFS2 Enhanced Journaled File System
CDRFS CD-ROM File System
UDFS Universal Disk Format Specification
CIFS Common Internet File System
NFS Network File System
NBPI Number of Bytes Per Inode
WSM Web based System management
RMC Resource Monitoring and Controll
DAT Digital Audio tape
QIC Quarter Inch Catridge
DLT Digital Linear Tape
LTO Linear tape Operation
TAR Tape ARchive
CPIO CoPy Input to Output
DD Device to Device
TCTL Tape ConTroL
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
CDE Common Desktop Environment
PPA parallel Port Adapter
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet protocol
DARPA Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency
IAB Internet Architecture Board
RFC Request For Comments
LAN Local Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network
NIS Network Infornation Services
DNS Domain Name Service
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
NCS Network Computing System
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
PING Packet InterNet Gropher
ODM Object Data Manager
SWVPD SoftWare Vital Product Data
SRC System Resource Controller
SMIT System Management Interface Tool
PUN Physical Unit Number
LUN Logical Unit Number
LVM Logical Volume Manager
VGDA Volume Group Descriptor Area
VGSA Volume Group Status Area
LVCB Logical Volume Control Block
LVDD Logical Volume Device Driver
PDT Performance Diagnostic Tool
SSH Secured SHell
RSH Restricted SHell
EA Extended Attributes
ACL Access Controll List
TCB Trusted Computing Base
SAK Secure Authentication Key
SAN Storage Area Network
NAS Network Area Storage (by NFS)
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