Appendix A: Acronyms
AD |
Active Directory (Microsoft) |
BAS |
Bull Advanced Server |
BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
CIFS |
Common Internet File System (Microsoft) |
clusterdb |
cluster management data base (Bull) |
CN |
Compute Node |
CSF |
Community Scheduler Framework |
DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
Dom0 |
Domain 0 (Xen) |
DomU |
Unprivileged Domain (Xen) |
DRM |
Distributed Resource Manager |
DRMS |
Distributed Resource Manager |
DSA |
Digital Signature Algorithm |
EHA |
Ethernet Hardware Address (aka MAC address) |
FAT32 |
File Allocation Table file system with 32-bit addresses |
GE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
GID |
Group IDentifier |
GNU |
Gnu's Not Unix |
GPFS |
General Parallel File SystemTM (IBM) |
GPL |
GNU General Public License |
GRUB |
GRand Unified Bootloader |
HN |
Head Node (Windows) |
HOSC |
Hybrid Operating System Cluster |
HPC |
High Performance Computing |
HPCS |
Windows® HPC Server 2008 (Microsoft) |
HVM |
Hardware Virtual Machine |
IB |
InfiniBand |
IP |
Internet Protocol |
IPolB |
Internet Protocol over InfiniBand protocol |
IT |
Information Technology |
LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LILO |
LInux LOader |
LINUX |
Linux Is Not UniX (Linus Torvald's UNIX) |
LSF |
Load Sharing Facility |
LVM |
Logical Volume Manager |
MAC address |
Media Access Control address (aka EHA) |
MBR |
Master Boot Record |
MMC |
Microsoft Management Console |
MN |
Management Node (Bull) |
MOM |
Machine Oriented Mini-server (Altair) |
MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
MULTICS |
Multiplexed Information and Computing Service |
NBP |
Network Boot Program |
ND |
Network Direct (Microsoft) |
NFS |
Network File System |
NPB |
NASA advanced supercomputing (NAS) Parallel Benchmarks |
NFTS |
New Technology File System (Windows) |
OGF |
Open Grid Forum |
OS |
Operating System |
PBS |
Portable Batch System |
PXE |
Pre-boot eXecution Environment |
RHEL |
RedHat Enterprise Linux |
ROI |
Return On Investment |
RSA |
Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman |
SDK |
Software Development Kit |
SGE |
Sun Grid Engine |
SLURM |
Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management |
SSH |
Secure SHell |
SUA |
Subsystem for Unix-based Applications |
TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
UID |
User IDentifier |
UNIX |
This is a pun on MULTICS (not an acronym!) |
VM |
Virtual Machine |
VNC |
Virtual Network Computing |
VT |
Virtual Technology (Intel®) |
WCCS |
Windows Compute Cluster Server |
WDS |
Windows Deployment Service |
WIM |
Windows IMage (Microsoft) |
WinPE |
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Microsoft) |
XBAS |
Bull Advanced Server for Xeon |
XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |