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server blade

One of the modules of an HP BladeSystem. The server blade is the compute module consisting

 

of the CPU, memory, I/O modules and other supporting hardware. Server blades do not contain

 

their own physical I/O ports, power supplies, or cooling.

SLURM backup

The node on which the optional backup slurmctld daemon runs. On SLURM failover, this

controller

node becomes the SLURM master controller.

SLURM master

The node on which the slurmctld daemon runs.

controller

 

SMP

Symmetric multiprocessing. A system with two or more CPUs that share equal (symmetric)

 

access to all of the facilities of a computer system, such as the memory and I/O subsystems. In

 

an HP XC system, the use of SMP technology increases the number of CPUs (amount of

 

computational power) available per unit of space.

ssh

Secure Shell. A shell program for logging in to and executing commands on a remote computer.

 

It can provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure

 

network.

symmetric

See SMP.

multiprocessing

 

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