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Section: 1.4 Acronyms and abbreviations

Abbreviation	Meaning
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
	Table 1-1: Acronyms and abbreviations

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