Cyclades AlterPath BladeManager user manual Blade Server, Boot, Break Signal, Checksum

Glossary
	baud rate cannot be equated to bandwidth unless the number
	of bits per symbol is known.
Blade Server	A Blade Server is a computer system on a motherboard,
	which includes processor(s), memory, a network connection
	and, sometimes, storage. The blade concept addresses the
	needs of large scale data centers to reduce space requirements
	for application servers and lower costs.
	A typical application could be serving web pages. So along
	with a Storage Blade they can be rack-mounted in multiple
	racks within a cabinet together with common cabling,
	redundant power supplies and cooling fans. Blades can be
	added as required, often as "hot pluggable" units of
	computing as they share a common high speed bus.
	IBM Definition: Blade Server refers to a chassis that can hold
	a number of hot-swappable devices called blades. That is, the
	entire package of chassis, server blades, and option blades.
Boot	To start a computer so that it is ready to run programs for the
	user. A PC can be booted either by turning its power on,
	(Cold Boot) or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (Warm Boot).
Break Signal	A break signal is generated in an RS-232 serial line by
	keeping the line in zero for longer than a character time.
	Breaks at a serial console port are interpreted by Sun servers
	as a signal to suspend operation and switch to monitor mode.
Checksum	A computed value which depends on the contents of a block
	of data and which is transmitted or stored along with the data
	in order to detect corruption of the data. The receiving system
	recomputes the checksum based upon the received data and
	compares this value with the one sent with the data. If the two
	values are the same, the receiver has some confidence that the
	data was received correctly.

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