| ABI |
Application Binary Interface |
| AC |
Alternating Current |
| ACCEL |
(benchmark name)(SPEC ACCEL) |
| ACF |
Accelerated Compute Fabric |
| ACK |
Acknowledgment |
| ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACMM |
Advanced CXL Memory Module |
| ACPI |
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ACS |
Architecture Compliance Suite |
| AD |
Additional Authentication Data |
| ADAS |
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems |
| ADC |
Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| ADDR |
memory address |
| ADR |
Asynchronous Data Refresh |
| AEC |
Active Electrical Connection |
| AER |
Advanced Error Reporting |
| AES |
Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AFDM |
Allocated Function Data Memory |
| AGC |
Automatic Gain Control |
| AGI |
Artificial General Intelligence |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AIB |
Advanced Interface Bus |
| AIC |
Add-In Card |
| AIGC |
AI-Generated Content |
| AiM |
Accelerator In Memory |
| AIML |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
| AlexNet |
(Neural network architecture name) |
| AlphaWave |
(Company Name) |
| ALU |
Arithmetic Logic Unit |
| AMBA |
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices |
| AMI |
American Megatrends Inc. |
| AMX |
Advanced Matrix Extensions |
| ANN |
Artificial Neural Network |
| AnyScale |
(Company Name) |
| AOC |
Active Optical Connection |
| AP |
Application Processor |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APN |
All Photonics Network |
| AppCapsule |
(technology name) |
| APPSEL |
Application Select |
| APU |
Accelerated Processing Unit |
| ARB |
Arbitration |
| ARIES |
(Product name) (Astera Labs) |
| ARM |
Acorn RISC Machine |
| ARM64 |
Acorn RISC Machine 64 |
| ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
| ARS |
Address Range Scrub |
| ASIC |
Application-specific integrated circuit |
| ASL |
Application Services Library |
| ASPEED |
ASPEED Technology Inc. |
| ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
| ATS |
Address Translation Services |
| ATTD |
Assembly Test Technology Development |
| ATX |
Advanced Technology eXtended |
| AutoNUMA |
(technology name) |
| AV |
Audio/Visual |
| AVX |
Advanced Vector Extensions |
| AWS |
Amazon Web Services |
| AXDIMM |
Acceleration DIMM |
| AXI |
Advanced eXtensible Interface |
| BAR |
Base Address Register |
| BARD |
(Foundation Model Name) |
| BAS |
Base System Architecture |
| BBM |
Break Before Make |
| BBML |
Break Before Make Level |
| BBR |
Base Boot Requirements |
| BDF |
PCI Express Bus Device Function |
| BeeGFS |
(file system name) |
| BEOL |
back end of line |
| BER |
Bit Error Rate |
| BertClassifier |
(class name) |
| BF16 |
Brain Float 16 |
| BFLOAT16 |
Brain Float 16 |
| BGA |
Ball Grid Array |
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
| BHS |
Birch Stream |
| BI |
Back-Invalidation |
| BiCS |
(Product Trademarks)（Bit Cost Scalable） |
| BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
| BirchStream |
(Platform name) (Intel) |
| BIRsp |
Back-Invalidate Response |
| BISnp |
Back-Invalidate Snoop |
| BIST |
Built-In Self-Test |
| BiT |
(programme name) |
| BKC |
Best-Known Configuration |
| BLAS |
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms |
| BlueLink |
(PHY implementation name) |
| BMC |
Baseboard Management Controller |
| BMW |
(Company Name) |
| BoF |
Birds of a Feather |
| BoW |
Bunch of Wire |
| BPF |
Berkeley Packet Filter |
| BrightTALK |
(Company Name) |
| BrightTrack |
(Name of service) |
| BS |
Bachelor of Science |
| BSA |
Base System Architecture |
| BSC |
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Bachelor of Science |
| BSc |
Bachelor of Science |
| BSD |
Berkeley Software Distribution |
| BSD3 |
(licence name) |
| BTB |
Branch Target Buffer |
| BtrFS |
(file system name) |
| ByteDance |
(Company Name) |
| C2C |
Chip-to-Chip |
| C2M |
Chip-to-Module |
| CA |
Cluster Autoscaler |
| CacheBench |
(Benchmark tool name) |
| CacheFlushed |
(request in CXL) |
| CacheLib |
(library name) |
| CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
| CAGR |
Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| CAM |
Configuration Address Mapping |
| CAPEX |
Capital expenditure |
| CAPI |
Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface |
| CBR |
Configuration Block Register |
| CCA |
Confidential Compute Architecture |
| CCD |
Core Complex Die |
| CCFS |
Core Configuration Feature Set |
| CCG |
CXL/CCIX Gateway |
| CCI |
Component Command Interface |
| CCIX |
Cache coherent interconnect for accelerators |
| CDAT |
Core and Device Attribute Table |
| CDF |
Cumulative Distribution Function |
| CDFP |
CD Form Factor Pluggable |
| CDI |
Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure |
| CDMI |
Cloud Data Management Interface |
| CDN |
Content Delivery Network |
| CDT |
Core Device Table |
| CDU |
Coolant Distribution Unit |
| CE |
Correctable Error |
| CEDT |
CXL Early Discovery Table |
| CEI |
Common Electrical IO |
| CEM |
Card Electromechanical |
| CentOS |
(Linux distribution name) |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
| CEPH |
(file system name) |
| CERN |
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
| CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| CFM |
Cubic Feet per Minute |
| CFMWS |
CXL Fixed Memory Window Structure |
| CG1 |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| ChatGPT |
(conversational language model name)(OpenAI) |
| CHBS |
CXL Host Bridge Structure |
| CHF |
Critical Heat Flux |
| CHI |
Coherent Hub Interface |
| CHIPS |
Clearing House Interbank Payments System |
| CIFAR |
Canadian Institute For Advanced Research |
| CIM |
Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CINECA |
Consorzio Interuniversitario del Nord-Est per il Calcolo Automatico |
| CLA |
Contributor License Agreement |
| CleanEvict |
(request in CXL) |
| CleanEvictNoData |
(request in CXL) |
| CLEC |
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier |
| CLFlush |
(Name of operation) |
| CLI |
Command Line Interface |
| CLKREC |
(PCIe Signal Name) |
| CLOS |
(Person's name, topology name) |
| CloudSuite |
(benchmark name) |
| CM |
Connection Manager |
| CMA |
Component Measurement and Authentication |
| CMB |
Controller Memory Buffer |
| CMIS |
Common Management Interface Specification |
| CMM |
CXL Memory Module |
| CMMB |
CXL Memory Module - Box |
| CMMD |
CXL Memory Module DRAM |
| CMMDC |
CXL Memory Module with DRAM and Compute |
| CMMH |
CXL Memory Module Hybrid |
| CMN |
Coherent Mesh Network |
| CMN700 |
Coherent Mesh Network 700 |
| CMO |
Cache Management Operation |
| CMOS |
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMS |
Composable Memory System |
| CMSDK |
Computational Memory Software Development Kit |
| CMSI |
the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative |
| CMU |
Carnegie Mellon University |
| CNI |
Container Network Interface |
| CO2 |
CO2 |
| CON |
DEF CON (hacker convention name) |
| ConnectX |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| CopperLink |
(Cable specification name) |
| COSMOS |
Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software |
| COTS |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| COVID |
Coronavirus disease |
| CoWoS |
Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate |
| CPER |
Common Platform Error Record |
| CPI |
Cache/Mem Protocol Interface |
| CPL |
Chiplet-based Processor Layout |
| CPLD |
Complex Programmable Logic Device |
| CPMU |
CXL Performance Monitoring Unit |
| CPO |
Co-Packaged Optics |
| CPS |
Cyber Physical System |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CPU0 |
CPU 0 |
| CPU1 |
CPU 1 |
| CQ |
Completion Queue |
| CQE |
Completion Queue Elements |
| CRAP |
Create, Read, Append, Process |
| CRC |
Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CRI |
Container Runtime Interfac |
| CRPS |
Common Redundant Power Supply |
| CRSS |
Center of Research in Systems and Storage |
| CRUD |
Create, Read, Update, Delete |
| CS |
Computational Storage |
| CSA |
Cloud Service Agreements |
| CSD |
Computational Storage Drive |
| CSE |
Computational Storage Engine, CXL switch emulator |
| CSEE |
Computational Storage Engine Environment |
| CSF |
Computational Storage Function |
| CSI |
Container Storage Interface |
| CSM |
Cloud Service Model |
| CSP |
Cloud Service Provider |
| CSR |
Configuration Space register |
| CSS |
Compute Subsystem |
| CSV |
Comma-Separated Values |
| CSx |
Computational Storage Device – CSP or CSD or CSA |
| CTLE |
Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer |
| CTO |
Chief Technology Officer |
| CUDA |
Compute Unified Device Architecture |
| CUT |
Concurrent Update Transactions |
| CV |
(numerical formula) |
| CVME |
Corrected Volatile Memory Error |
| CVSS |
Common Vulnerability Scoring System |
| CWDM4 |
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing 4 |
| CWWDM |
Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| CXL |
Compute Express Link |
| CXL_IDE_KM |
CXL.cachemem IDE Key Management |
| CXL.cache |
(Protocol Name) |
| CXL.io |
(Protocol Name) |
| CXL.mem |
(Protocol Name) |
| CXS |
Coherent eXpander Socket |
| CZ120 |
(Product name)(Micron) |
| D2D |
Die-to-Die |
| D2H |
device to host |
| DAC |
Direct Attached Connection, Direct Attach Cable |
| DAG |
Directed Acyclic Graph |
| DAMON |
Data Access MONitor |
| DAOS |
Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage |
| DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DAS |
Direct Attached Storage |
| DAX |
Direct Access Mode |
| DBMS |
Database Management System |
| DC |
Direct Current, Dynamic Capacity |
| DCA |
Digital Communication Analyzer |
| DCC |
Data-Centric Computing |
| DCD |
Dynamic Capacity Device |
| DCI |
Data Centric Infrastructure |
| DCIM |
Data Center Infrastructure Management |
| DCM |
Data Center Management |
| DCMFM |
Data Center Memory Fabric Manager |
| DCMHS |
Data Center Modular Hardware System |
| DCN |
Data Center Networking |
| DCO |
Data Center Optimization |
| DCOH |
Device Coherency Engine |
| DCPerf |
(benchmark neme)(Meta) |
| DCPMM |
DC Persistent Memory |
| DCS |
Dynamic Capacity Service |
| DCSCI |
Datacenter-ready Secure Control Interface |
| DCSCM |
Datacenter-ready Secure Control Module |
| DDI |
Direct Data Interface |
| DDIMM |
Differential DIMM |
| DDoS |
Distributed Denial of Service |
| DDR |
Double Data Rate |
| DDR1 |
Double Data Rate 1 |
| DDR2 |
Double Data Rate 2 |
| DDR3 |
Double Data Rate 3 |
| DDR4 |
Double Data Rate 4 |
| DDR5 |
Double Data Rate 5 |
| DDR6 |
Double Data Rate 6 |
| DDRIO |
Double Data Rate Input/Output |
| DDRT |
Double Data Rate T |
| DDS |
Dynamic Device Scaling |
| DE |
Distinguished Engineer |
| DEC |
(Company Name) |
| DeepImage |
(Weaviate item name) |
| DeepSpeed |
OSS 名 (Microsoft) |
| DEF |
DEF CON (hacker convention name) |
| DenseMem |
(IP name) (ZeroPoint) |
| DES |
debug error injection and statistic features |
| DesignCon |
(Conference Name) |
| DevCon |
(Conference Name) |
| DevKit |
Developer Kit |
| DevOps |
Development and Operations |
| DFA |
Decision Feedback Equalization |
| DFB |
Distributed Feedback |
| DFE |
Decision Feedback Equalizer |
| DGX |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| DI |
Data Integrity |
| DIF |
Data Integrity Field |
| DIMM |
Dual Inline Memory Module |
| DIMPA |
DIMM PAthway |
| DirectCXL |
(prototype name) (Panmnesic) |
| DirtyEvict |
(request in CXL) |
| DiskANN |
(application name) |
| DL |
Deep Learning |
| DL1 |
Data Level 1 |
| DL2 |
Data Level 2 |
| DLC |
Direct-to-chip Liquid Cooling |
| DLID |
Destination Local Identifier |
| DLIO |
(Benchmark tool name) |
| DLLP |
Data Link Layer Packet |
| DLP |
Data Link Layer Packet |
| DLRM |
Deep Learning Recommendation Model |
| DLUT |
Device Lookup Table |
| DM |
Device Manager, Domain Memory |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
| DMA32 |
(Name of zone) |
| DMC |
Data Management Chip |
| DMP |
Device Media Partition |
| DMTF |
Distributed Management Task Force |
| DNA |
Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DNN |
Deep Neural Network |
| DNO |
Datacenter Network Optimizer, Density Optimized |
| DOC |
Direct Attached Optical |
| DOCA |
Data-Center-on-a-Chip Architecture |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| DOE |
Data Object Exchange |
| DOM |
Digital Optical Monitoring |
| DPA |
Device Physical Address |
| DPC |
Downstream Port Containment |
| DPDK |
Data Plane Development Kit |
| DPID |
Destination PBR ID |
| DPPM |
Defects Per Million Parts |
| DPR |
Dynamic Page Relocation |
| DPU |
Data Processing Unit |
| DQ |
Data Queue |
| DRA |
Dynamic Resource Allocation |
| DragonFly |
(topology name) |
| DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DreamWorks |
(Company Name) |
| DRS |
Data Response |
| DS |
Decision Support |
| DSA |
Data Streaming Accelerator, Digital Signature Algorithm |
| DSC |
Dirty Shutdown Count |
| DSDA |
|
| DSEMTS |
Device Scoped EFI Memory Type Structure |
| DSI |
Data Signal Integrity |
| DSIM |
Data Center Infrastructure Management |
| DSM |
Device-Specific Method |
| DSMAS |
Device Scoped Memory Affinity Structure |
| DSP |
Downstream Switch Port |
| DSSI |
Data & Sideband Serialization Interface |
| DVFS |
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling |
| DVM |
Distributed Virtual Memory |
| DVSEC |
Designated Vender-Specific Extended Capability |
| DVT |
Design Validation Test |
| DWDM |
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| DWORD |
Double Word |
| DXE |
Driver Execution Environment |
| E1L |
(EDSFF card form factor) |
| E1S |
(EDSFF card form factor) |
| E2O |
electrical-to-optical |
| E2O2E |
Electrical-to-Optical-to-Electrical conversion |
| E3S |
(EDSFF card form factor) |
| EBS |
Elastic Block Store |
| ECAM |
Enhanced Configuration Access Mechanism |
| ECC |
Error-correcting Code |
| ECDSA |
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm |
| ECMP |
Equal Cost Multi Path |
| ECN |
Engineering Change Notice |
| ECO |
Engineering Change Order |
| ECOC |
European Conference on Optical Communication |
| ecoHMEM |
Automatic Data Distribution for Heterogeneous Memory Systems |
| ECR |
Engineering Change Request |
| ECRC |
End-to-End Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| ECS |
Error Checking and Scrubbing |
| EDA |
Electronic Design Automation |
| EDAC |
Error Detection And Correction |
| EDK |
UEFI Development Kit 2020 |
| EDK2 |
UEFI Development Kit 2020 |
| EDPC |
Enhanced Downstream Port Containment |
| EDR |
Enhanced Data Rate |
| EDS |
Enterprise and Datacenter Standard |
| EDSFF |
Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor |
| EDSSF |
Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor |
| EEPROM |
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| EES2 |
The Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades |
| EFA |
Elastic Fabric Adapter |
| EFI |
Extensible Firmware Interface |
| EIC |
Electronic Integrated Circuit |
| EID |
Endpoint ID |
| EINJ |
APEI Error INJection |
| EL2 |
Exception Level 2 |
| ELMO |
(system-name) |
| EM |
Emerging Memory |
| EMC |
(Company Name) |
| EMCA2 |
Enhanced Machine Check Architecture 2 |
| EMI |
Electromagnetic Interference |
| EMIB |
Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge |
| EMR |
Emerald Rapids |
| EMS |
Elastic Memory Service |
| EINJ |
APEI Error INJection |
| ENIC |
emulated Ethernet NIC |
| EP |
Endpoint |
| EPF |
Endpoint Function |
| EPI |
European Processor Initiative |
| EPS |
Event Per Second |
| EPVM |
Extended Parallel Virtual Machines |
| EPYC |
(Processor name) (AMD) |
| EQ |
equalization |
| ER |
End-to-end Round trip, Error Rate, Extended Reach |
| ERC |
European Resarch Council |
| ERI |
Electronics Resurgence Initiative |
| ERP |
Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ES |
Engineering Sample |
| ESM |
Extended Speed Mode |
| ESX |
Elastic Sky X (VMWare) |
| ESXi |
(Product name) (Vmware) |
| ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
| ETH |
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |
| ETL |
Extract/Transform/Load |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUPILOT |
(HPC system name) |
| EuroHPC |
(HPC Project name) |
| EVB |
Evaluation Board |
| EVT |
Engineering Validation Test |
| EWG |
Electrical Working Group |
| EX |
(supercomputer name) (HPE) |
| ExaMax |
(Connector name) (Amphenol) |
| EXT4 |
(file system name) |
| F2FS |
(file system name) |
| FabreX |
(Product name)(GigaIO) |
| FAE |
Field Application Engineer |
| FAM |
Fabric-Attached Memory |
| FAMFS |
FAM FS |
| FAST |
Fabric Address Segment Table |
| FatTrees |
(topology name) |
| FBER |
First bit error rate |
| FBGEMM |
Facebook General Matrix Multiplication |
| FCC |
Flow Control Credits |
| FCI |
Fast memory Cache Instance |
| FCS |
Frame Check Sequence |
| FD |
File Descriptor |
| FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FDI |
Fit Aware / D2D Interface |
| FDM |
Function Data Memory |
| FDN |
Function-dedicated network |
| FDP |
Flexible Data Placement |
| FDR |
Fourteen Data Rate |
| FEC |
Forwarded Error Correction |
| FEMU |
Flash Emulation (the University of Chicago) |
| FEOL |
front end of line |
| FFE |
Feed-Forward Equalization |
| FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
| FIFO |
First in First out |
| Filemap |
(data structure name) (Linux) |
| FinFET |
Fin Field Effect Transistor |
| FIO |
Flexible IO tester |
| FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standards |
| FIT |
Failures in Time |
| FLA |
Four-Letter Acronym |
| FlashCore |
(Storage device name) (IBM) |
| FlexBus |
(interconnect name) |
| FlexIO |
(Hardware specification name) |
| FLIT |
Flow Control Unit |
| FLOPS |
Floating Point Operation Per Second |
| FLW |
Full Width |
| FM |
Fabric Manager |
| FMAPI |
Fabric Manager API |
| FMFM |
Fleet Memory Fault Management |
| FMS |
Flash Memory Summit |
| FNVMe |
Fabrics NVMe |
| FOCoS |
Fan-Out Chip on Substrate |
| FortiX |
(NAND flash chip name)(Macronix) |
| FP |
Floating Point |
| FP16 |
Half-precision floating-point format |
| FP32 |
Single-precision floating-point format |
| FP64 |
Double-precision floating-point format |
| FP8 |
8-bit floating-point format |
| FPA |
Floating Point Arithmetic |
| FPGA |
Field Programmable Gate Array |
| FPP |
Front Panel Pluggable |
| FR |
400G QSFP-DD FR4, Far Reach |
| FR4 |
400G QSFP-DD FR4 |
| FR8 |
400G QSFP-DD FR8 |
| FRAM |
Ferroelectric Random Access Memory |
| FRAND |
Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory |
| FRU |
Field Replaceable Unit |
| FS |
Filesystem |
| FSA |
Final Specification Agreement |
| FSAS |
(Company Name) |
| FSDAX |
Filesystem Direct Access |
| FTI |
Future Technology Initiatives |
| FTL |
Flash Translation Layer |
| FusionFS |
(file system name) |
| FVP |
Fixed Virtual Platform |
| FYI |
For Your Information |
| GA |
General Availability |
| GAI |
Generative AI |
| GbE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
| GCC |
GNU Compiler Collection |
| GCID |
global component ID |
| GCM |
Galois/Counter Mode |
| GDDR |
Graphics DDR |
| GDDR6 |
Graphics DDR6 |
| GDDR6X |
Graphics DDR6X |
| GDDR7 |
Graphics DDR7 |
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
| GDRDMA |
GPU Direct RDMA |
| GDT |
GFD Decoder Table |
| GeLU |
Gaussian Error Linear Units |
| GEMM |
Matrix-Matrix Multiplication |
| GEMV |
Matrix-Vector Multiplication |
| GenAI |
Generative artificial intelligence |
| GENE |
(programme name) |
| GeneAI |
Generative AI |
| Geneve |
Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation |
| GenoaX |
(Processor name) (AMD) |
| GenZ |
(interconnect name) |
| GFAM |
Global FAM |
| GFD |
Global FAM Device |
| GFP |
Get Free Page |
| GFP_EXMEM |
(flag name) |
| GFP_NORMAL |
(flag name) |
| GH200 |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| GHES |
Generic Hardware Error Source |
| GIC |
Generic Interrupt Controller |
| GIC700 |
(Product name)(ARM) |
| GigaIO |
(Company Name) |
| GigaIO |
(Company Name) |
| GIM |
Global Integrated Memory |
| GISMO |
Global IO-free Shared Memory |
| GIST |
(Benchmark name) |
| GitHub |
(Company Name) |
| GitLab |
(DevOps lifecycle tool name) |
| GloVe |
Global Vectors for Word Representation |
| GM |
General Manager |
| GMI |
Global Memory Interconnect |
| GNR |
Granite Rapids |
| GNU |
GNU's Not Unix! |
| GPF |
Global Persistence Flush |
| GPFS |
(file system name) |
| GPGPU |
General-purpose computing on graphics processing unit |
| GPIO |
General Purpose Input/Output |
| GPL |
GNU General Public License |
| GPP |
General Purpose Processor |
| GPT |
Generative Pretrained Transformer |
| GPU |
Graphics Processing Unit |
| GPU1 |
GPU 1 |
| GRAN |
(Field name) |
| GRAPHCORE |
(Company Name) |
| GroqRack |
(Product name)(Groq) |
| gRPC |
gRPC Remote Procedure Calls |
| GSI |
Gigascale Integration |
| GTC |
GPU Technology Conference |
| GTH |
(name of transceiver) (AMD) |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| GUID |
Globally Unique Identifier |
| GVMI |
Guest Virtual Machine ID |
| GZIP |
GNU zip |
| H2D |
Host to Device |
| H2H |
Host to Host |
| H3C |
(Company Name) |
| HA |
High Availability |
| HammerDB |
(Benchmark tool name) |
| HANA |
(Product name) (SAP) |
| HAPS |
(hardware prototyping system used by Synopsys) |
| HBA |
Host Bus Adapter |
| HBM |
High Bandwidth Memory |
| HBM2 |
High Bandwidth Memory 2 |
| HBM3 |
High Bandwidth Memory 3 |
| HBM4 |
High Bandwidth Memory 4 |
| HBR |
Hierarchy Based Routing |
| HCA |
Host Channel Adapter |
| HCI |
Human-Computer Interaction |
| HD |
High-Density |
| HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
| HDFS |
Hadoop Distributed File System |
| HDM |
Host-managed Device Memory |
| HDMD |
Device Managed Coherence |
| HDMDB |
Device Managed Coherence with Back-Invalidation |
| HDMH |
Host Managed Coherence |
| HDR |
High Data Rate |
| HEVC |
High Efficiency Video Coding |
| HFT |
High-Frequency Trading |
| HGX |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| HIB |
Host Interface Board |
| HiCCL |
Havana Collective Communication Library |
| HID |
Hardware ID |
| HIR |
Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap |
| HIVE |
Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit |
| HLS |
High-Level Synthesis |
| HMACs |
Hashed Message Authentication Codes |
| HMAT |
Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table |
| HMEM |
Heterogeneous Memory |
| HMM |
Host Memory Manager |
| HMSDK |
Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit |
| HMU |
Hotness Monitoring Unit |
| HNF |
Home Nodes Fabric |
| HIP |
Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability |
| HomE |
Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning Inference |
| HP |
Hot-Plug |
| HPA |
Host Physical Address |
| HPC |
High-Performance Computing |
| HPCG |
(Benchmark name) |
| HPCM |
High-Performance Computing Module |
| HPCX |
(Software package name)(NVIDIA) |
| HPDA |
High-Performance Data Analytics |
| HPE |
(Company name) |
| HPL |
High-Performance Linpack |
| HPM |
Host Processor Modules, Hardware Platform Management |
| HPPR |
Hard Post-package repair, Hardware Platform Power Management |
| HTAP |
Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| HVM |
High Volume Manufacturing |
| HyperCube |
(topology name) |
| HyperTransport |
(interconnect name) |
| HyperX |
(topology name) |
| I2C |
Inter-Integrated Circuit |
| I3C |
Improved Inter Integrated Circuit |
| IB |
InfiniBand |
| IBM |
(Company Name) |
| IBS |
Instruction Based Sampling, (Company Name) |
| IBTA |
InfiniBand Trade Association |
| IBverbs |
InfiniBand Verbs |
| IC |
Integrated Circuit |
| ICC |
International Conference on Computing |
| ICI |
Inter Core Interconnects |
| ICT |
Information and Communication Technology |
| IDC |
(Company Name) |
| IDD |
Interface Definition Document |
| IDE |
Integrity and Data Encryption |
| IDT |
Interleave DPID Table |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IG |
Interleave Granularity |
| IHV |
Independent Hardware Vendor |
| IIT |
Indian Institute of Technology |
| IL1 |
Instruction Level 1 |
| IL2 |
Instruction Leve 2 |
| ILEC |
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier |
| ILP |
Instruction Level Parallelism |
| IMDB |
Internet Movie Database |
| IMDD |
Intensity Modulation with Direct Detection |
| IMEC |
(Company Name) |
| IMS |
Interrupt Message Store |
| INF |
Information Document For |
| InfiniBand |
(interconnect name) |
| INT |
Integer |
| IntelliProp |
(Company Name) |
| INTLV |
(Field name) |
| IO |
Input/Output |
| IOL |
InterOperability Laboratory |
| IOMAP |
(API Name in the Linux kernel) |
| IOMMU |
Input-Output Memory Management Unit |
| IOMMUFD |
Input-Output Memory Management Unit File Descriptor |
| IOPS |
Input Output Per Second |
| IoT |
Internet of Things |
| IOTLB |
Input/Output Translation Lookaside Buffer |
| IOV |
Input/Output Virtualization |
| IOVA |
I/O Virtual Address |
| IOWN |
Innovative Optical and Wireless Network |
| IOX |
I/O Expansion (Grand Teton) |
| IP |
Intellectual Property |
| IPC |
Inter-Process Communication, Instructions Per Cycle |
| IPDPS |
the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium |
| IPMI |
Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
| IPoCXL |
IP over CXL |
| IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
| IPU |
Intelligence Processing Unit |
| IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
| IRL |
Integrated Return Loss |
| ISA |
Industry Standard Architecture, Instruction Set Architecture |
| ISC |
the Information Security Conference |
| ISCA |
International Symposium on Computer Architecture |
| iSCSI |
Internet Small Computer System Interface |
| ISE |
Integrated Systems Europe |
| iSER |
iSCSI Extensions for RDMA |
| ISI |
Inter Symbol Interference |
| ISL |
Inter-Switch Link |
| IsoCapacity |
(Equal capacity) |
| IsoPower |
(Equal power) |
| IsoSpeed |
(Equal velocity) |
| ISSCC |
International Solid-State Circuits Conference |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| ITER |
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
| IUE |
Infrastructure Usage Effectiveness |
| IV |
Initialization Vector |
| iWARP |
Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol |
| Jabil |
(Company Name) |
| JAX |
OSS(library name) (Google) |
| Jayhawk |
(Processor name) (d-Matrix) |
| JBOD |
Just a Bunch Of Disks |
| JBOF |
just a bunch of flash |
| JBOG |
Just a Bunch Of GPUs |
| JBOM |
Just a Bunch Of Memory |
| JCL |
Job Control Language |
| JEDEC |
Joint Electron Device Engineering Councils |
| JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
| JTAG |
Joint Test Action Group |
| K8S |
Kubernetes |
| KB |
Knowledge Base |
| KIOXIA |
(Company Name) |
| KMEM |
Kernel Memory |
| KNL |
Knights Landing |
| KNN |
K-Nearest Neighbors |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
| KubeCon |
(Conference Name) |
| KV |
Key-Value |
| KVM |
Kernel-based Virtual Machine |
| L0P |
Low Power State |
| LABS |
Link Autonomous Bandwidth Status |
| LAI |
Logic Analyzer Interface |
| LAMMPS |
Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LBA |
Logical Block Addressing |
| LBBR |
Linux Base Boot Requirements |
| LBMS |
Link Bandwidth Management Status |
| LC4 |
(compression algorithm name) |
| LCD |
liquid crystal display |
| LCRC |
Link Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| LD |
Logical Device |
| LD_PRELOAD |
(environment variable name) |
| LD0 |
LD 0 |
| LD1 |
Logical Device 1 |
| LD15 |
LD 15 |
| LD2 |
Logical Device 2 |
| LDFAM |
(FAM presented to host via LD). |
| LDID |
(ID of LD) |
| LEAP |
(Effectively Prefetching Remote Memory with Leap) |
| LeCroy |
(Company Name) |
| LED |
Light Emitting Diode |
| LEGO |
(Company Name) |
| LEO |
(Product name)(Astera Labs) |
| LER |
Live Error Recovery |
| LevelDB |
(key-value Database name) (OSS) |
| LF |
Linux Foundation |
| LFEDGE |
(organisation name) |
| LGA |
Land Grid Array |
| LID |
Local Identifier |
| LightCounting |
(Company Name) |
| LightElligence |
(Company Name) |
| LightingDB |
(In-memory database name) (SK Telecom) |
| LinkedIn |
(Company Name) |
| LinkExpert |
(Product name)(Teledyne LeCroy) |
| LINKINIT |
(state name) |
| LinkX |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| LINPACK |
(Benchmark name) |
| LiqidOS |
(Fabric Manager Name) (Liqid) |
| LLAMA |
Large Language Model Meta AI |
| LLC |
Last Level Cache |
| LLM |
Large Language Model |
| LLVM |
Low Level Virtual Machine |
| LMS |
Least Mean Squares |
| LoginVSI |
(VDI benchmark name) |
| LP |
Low Power |
| LP5 |
(LPDDR5) |
| LP6 |
(LPDDR6) |
| LPC |
Linux Plumbers Conference |
| LPCAM |
Low Power Content Addressable Memory |
| LPCAMM |
Low Power Content Addressable Memory Module |
| LPD |
Logical PCle Device |
| LPDDR |
Low Power DDR5 |
| LPDDR4 |
Low Power Double Data Rate 4 |
| LPDDR5 |
Low Power DDR5 |
| LPDDR5X |
Low Power DDR5X |
| LPO |
Linear-drive Pluggable Optics |
| LR |
Long Reach |
| LR1 |
Long Reach 1 |
| LRU |
Least Recently Used |
| LS |
Linux on Server Arm SoCs |
| LSA |
Label Storage Area |
| LSF |
Load Sharing Facility |
| LSFMM |
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management |
| LSM |
Log-Structured Merge-tree |
| LSN |
Logical service node |
| LTPI |
LVDS Tunneling Protocol & Interface |
| LTS |
Long Term Support |
| LTSSM |
Link Training and Status State Machine |
| LVM |
Logical Volume Manager |
| LZ4 |
(Name of lossless compression algorithm) |
| M-PESTI |
Modular-Peripheral Sideband Tunneling Interface |
| M2S |
Master to Subordinate |
| MAC |
Message Authentication Code, Multiply-And-Accumulate |
| MACsec |
MAC Security |
| MAP_EXMEM |
(flag name) |
| MAP_NORMAL |
(flag name) |
| MAP_SYNC |
(flag name) |
| MapReduce |
(Programming model name) |
| MBINIT |
(state name) |
| MBTRAIN |
(state name) |
| MC |
Memory Controller, Memory Channel, Mini Conference |
| MCA |
Micro Channel Architecture, Machine Check Architecture |
| MCDRAM |
Multi-Channel DRAM |
| MCE |
Machine Check Exception |
| MCFG |
Memory Mapped Configuration Space Base Address Description Table |
| MCIO |
Multi-Channel Input/Output, Mini Cool Edge IO |
| MCM |
Multi Chip Module |
| MCP |
Multi-Chip Package |
| mCPU |
management CPU |
| MCR |
Multiplexer Combined Ranks |
| MCTP |
Management Component Transport Protocol |
| MCU |
Micro Controller Unit |
| MD |
Memory Descriptor |
| MDC |
Memory-Driven Computing |
| MDFI |
(interconnect name) (Intel) |
| MDNO |
Modular Hardware System Partial Width Density Optimized |
| MDS |
Meta Data Server |
| MegaHint |
(Name of metagenome tool) |
| MEM |
Memory |
| MemCon |
(Conference Name) |
| MEMKID_DEFAULT |
(flag name) |
| MEMS |
Optical microelectromechanical systems |
| MemSpecRd |
(command name) |
| MemVerge |
(Company Name) |
| MES |
Manufacturing Execution System |
| MESI |
Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid cache coherence protocol |
| META |
(Company Name) |
| MetaBat |
(genomics workload name) |
| MetaSPAdes |
(Name of metagenome tool) |
| MFU |
Model FLOPS Utilization |
| MGID |
Multicast Group Identifier |
| MGX |
(Platform name) (NVIDIA) |
| MH |
Multi-Headed |
| MHD |
Magnetohydrodynamics |
| MHMLD |
Multi-Host Multi Logical Device |
| MHS |
Modular Hardware System |
| MHSLD |
Multi-Host Single Logical Device |
| MI100 |
GPU 名 (AMD) |
| MI210 |
(Product name)(AMD) |
| MI300 |
GPU 名 (AMD) |
| MI300A |
GPU 名 (AMD) |
| MICRO |
International Symposium on Microarchitecture |
| microLED |
Micro LED |
| MilanX |
(Processor name) (AMD) |
| MIMO |
Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output |
| MindShare |
(Company Name) |
| MiniFE |
(application name) (Finite Element Mini) |
| MiniSAS |
Mini Small Computer System Interface |
| MIPS |
(Company Name) |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ML |
Machine Learning |
| MLC |
Multi-Level Cell, Memory Latency Checker |
| MLCommons |
(Name of organisation). |
| MLD |
Multi Logical Device |
| MLIR |
Multi Level Intermediate Representation |
| MLP |
Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MLPerf |
(Benchmark name) |
| MLSD |
Mean Likelihood Sequence Detector |
| MM |
Memory Management, Memory Machine, Mirror Mezz |
| MMAP |
(system call name) |
| MMAT |
Memory Management Area Type |
| MME |
Mirror Mezz Enhanced |
| MMIO |
Memory Mapped I/O |
| MMPT |
Management Message Passthrough |
| MMU |
Memory Management Unit |
| MMU700 |
(system MMU name) (ARM) |
| MMX |
Memory Machine X (MemVerge) |
| MNIST |
Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (database) |
| MOE |
Mixture of Experts |
| MOESI |
Modified、Owned、Exclusive、Shared、Invalid cache coherence protocol |
| MOFED |
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution |
| MongoDB |
(Document-oriented database name) |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MP3 |
MPEG-1 audio layer 3 |
| MPAM |
Memory Partitioning and Monitoring |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
| MPMD |
Multiple Program Multiple Data |
| MPMM |
Max Power Mitigation Mechanism |
| MPN |
Manufacturer Part Number |
| MPNP |
Modular Plug and Play |
| MPO |
Multi-fiber Push On |
| MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY |
NUMA Memory Policy 名 |
| MPP |
Massively Parallel Processing |
| MPU |
Memory Protection Unit |
| MQSim |
(SSD simulator)(OSS) |
| MR |
Multi-Root, Multi-Ranked, Medium Reach |
| MRAM |
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory |
| MRDIMM |
Multi-Ranked DIMM |
| MRIOV |
Multi-Root I/O Virtualization |
| MRLR |
Medium Reach Long Reach |
| MRU |
Most Recently Used |
| MS |
Master of Science |
| MSA |
Multi-Source Agreement |
| MSI |
Message Signaled Interrupt |
| MSIF |
Modular Shared Infrastructure |
| MSIX |
Message Signaled Interrupt |
| MSRP |
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failure |
| MTCP |
Management Component Transport Protocol |
| MTE |
Memory Tagging Extension |
| MTP |
Multi-Threaded Pipelines |
| MUX |
Multiplexer |
| MVP |
Minimum Viable Product |
| MX |
(Product name)(TetraMem) |
| MXC |
Memory Expander Controller |
| MXIO |
Modular - Extensible IO |
| MySQL |
(OSS RDBMS Name) |
| MZI |
Mach-Zehnder interferometer |
| NACK |
Negative ACKnow-ledgement |
| NAND |
Not AND |
| NANYA |
(Company Name) |
| NAS |
Network Attached Storage |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASDAQ |
National Association of Securities Deals Automated Quotations |
| NBA |
National Basketball Association |
| NCCL |
NVIDIA Collective Communications Library |
| NCSI |
Network Connectivity Status Indicator |
| NDA |
Non-Disclosure Agreement |
| NDR |
Non-Data Response |
| Neoverse |
(Processor name) (ARM) |
| NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing |
| NetApp |
(Company Name) |
| NetFlow |
(library name) (NVIDIA) |
| NetQ |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| NetworkX |
(library name) (OSS) |
| NFIT |
NVDIMM Firmware Interaface Table |
| NFS |
Network File System |
| NGINX |
(Web server application name) (OSS) |
| NI |
Non-coherent Interconnect |
| NIC |
Network Interface Card |
| NIC450 |
(IP core name) (ARM) |
| NILFS2 |
(file system name) |
| NISTP |
Neuroimaging Sciences Training Program |
| NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
| NMC |
Near Memory Compute |
| NMI |
Non-Maskable Interrupt |
| NMS |
Non-Memory Store |
| NOC |
Network-On-Chip |
| NOP |
No Operatio |
| NOVA |
(file system name) |
| NP |
Non-deterministic Polynomial-time |
| NPO |
Near Package Optics |
| NPS |
NUMA node per socket |
| NPU |
Neural Processing Unit |
| NRAM |
nanotube-based RAM |
| NRE |
Non-Recurring Engineering |
| NRZ |
Non Return to Zero |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NTB |
Non-transparent bridge |
| NTT |
(Company Name) |
| NUMA |
Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| NUMA0 |
NUMA 0 |
| NUMA1 |
NUMA 1 |
| NUMA4 |
NUMA 4 |
| NUMA5 |
NUMA 5 |
| NuMem |
(Company Name) |
| NumPy |
(library name) (OSS) |
| NV |
Non-Volatile |
| NVCMM |
non-volatile CXL memory module |
| NVDIMM |
Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Modules |
| NVIDIA |
(Company Name) |
| NVLink |
(interconnect name) (NVIDIA) |
| NVM |
Non-Volatile Memory |
| NVMe |
NVM Express |
| NVMeMI |
NVM Express Management Interface |
| NVMeMI |
NVMe Management Interface |
| NVMeOF |
NVMe over Fabrics |
| NVMP |
NVM Programming |
| NVMZ |
Gen-Z SSD |
| NVMz |
Gen-Z SSD |
| NVRAM |
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory |
| NVShmem |
(library name) (NVIDIA) |
| NVSwitch |
(Switching chip name)(NVIDIA) |
| NVswitch |
(Switching chip name)(NVIDIA) |
| OAI |
Open Accelerator Infrastructure |
| OAM |
OCP Accelerator Module |
| OAPS |
Optimized Architecture for Parallel Systems |
| OBD |
On-Board Diagnostics |
| OCI |
Optical Compute Interconnect |
| OCP |
Open Compute Project |
| OCPN |
Open Compute Project Networking |
| OCS |
Optical Circuit Switch |
| OctoML |
(Company Name) |
| OCuLink |
(connector technology)(PCI-SIG) |
| ODM |
Original Design Manufacturer |
| ODOS |
OpenMP DPU Offloading Support |
| ODP |
On Demand Pageing |
| ODPMR |
on-demand paging memory region |
| ODSA |
Open Domain-Specific Architecture |
| OEL |
Oracle Enterprise Linux |
| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OEOs |
Optical-Electrical-Optical |
| OFA |
OpenFabrics Alliance |
| OFC |
(Conference Name) (Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition) |
| OFED |
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution |
| OFI |
Open Fabrics Interfaces |
| OFIWG |
OpenFabrics Interfaces Working Group |
| OFMF |
OpenFabrics Management Framework |
| OFP8 |
OCP 8-bit Floating Point Specification |
| OIF |
Optical Internetworking Forum |
| OLAP |
Online Analytical Processing |
| OLTP |
Online Transaction Processing |
| OM3 |
Optical multimode 3 |
| OMA |
Optical Modulation Amplitude |
| OMI |
Open Memory Interface |
| OmniCache |
(Collaborative Caching for Near-storage Accelerators) |
| OmniDynamic |
(component in OmniCache) |
| OmniIndex |
(component in OmniCache) |
| OmniPath |
(interconnect name)(Intel) |
| oneCCL |
OneAPI Collective Communications Library |
| OneMCC |
One Memory Coupled Computing |
| ONNX |
Open Neural Network Exchange |
| oNOC |
optical Network On Chip |
| OOM |
Out Of Memory |
| OPAF |
Open Process Automation Forum |
| OpenACC |
Open ACCelerators |
| OpenAI |
(Company Name) |
| OpenAPN |
Open All-Photonic Network Functional Architecture |
| OpenBIC |
Open Baseboard Management Controller Interface |
| OpenBMC |
Open Baseboard Management Controller |
| OpenCAPI |
Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface |
| OpenCL |
Open Computing Language |
| OpenCUBE |
(Project name) (European Production-ready Cloud platform) |
| OpenFabrics |
(Consortium name) (OpenFabrics Alliance) |
| OpenFAM |
(API Name) (Open FAM) |
| OpenFOAM |
(CFD software name) (Open Field Operation And Manipulation) |
| OpenIB |
Open InfiniBand |
| OpenPower |
(Consortium name) (OpenPOWER Foundation) |
| OpenRMC |
(Project name) (Open Rack Management Controller) |
| OpenSDS |
Open Software-Defined Storage |
| OpenShift |
(container platform name) (RedHat) |
| OpenSHMEM |
(API Name) (Open SHared MEMory) |
| OpenSM |
Open Subnet Manager |
| OpenSNAPI |
Open Scalable Network Application Programming Interface |
| OpenStack |
(cloud platform name) (OSS) |
| OpenXLA |
(compiler name) (Open Accelerated Linear Algebra) |
| OPEX |
Operating Expense |
| OPF |
(Product name) (insyde) |
| OPI |
(Project name) (Open Platform Infrastructure Project) |
| OPM |
On-Package Memory |
| OPT |
Open Pretrained Transformers |
| OPT13B |
Open Pretrained Transformers - 13 B |
| OPT66B |
Open Pretrained Transformers - 66 B |
| OPX |
Omni-Path Express |
| ORV3 |
Open Rack V 3 |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSA |
Optical Society of America |
| OSAT |
Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly & Test company |
| OSC |
Operating System Capabilities |
| OSF |
Open System Firmware |
| OSFP |
Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable |
| OSFPXD |
Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable eXtended Density |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSLabs |
(NPO name) |
| OSS |
Open Source Software, Object Storage Server |
| OSSJ |
Open Source Summit Japan |
| OSU |
Ohio State University |
| OU |
Open U |
| OVMF |
Open Virtual Machine Framework |
| OVS |
Open vSwitch |
| OWI |
Optical Wavelength Interval |
| P2P |
Peer to Peer |
| P2V |
Physical to Virtual |
| P3DFFT |
Parallel Three-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms |
| P4 |
Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors |
| PA |
Precision Architecture |
| PageRank |
(Algorithm name) |
| PaLMs |
Pathways Language Models |
| PAM |
Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
| PAM4 |
Pulse Amplitude Modulation 4 |
| PAM6 |
Pulse Amplitude Modulation 6 |
| PASID |
Process Address Space Identifier |
| PBR |
Port Based Routing |
| PBRS31 |
Pseudorandom Binary Sequence of length 31 |
| PBS |
Portable Batch System |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PCB |
Printed Circuit Board |
| PCBA |
Printed Circuit Board Assembly |
| PCE |
Path Computation Element |
| PCH |
Platform Controller Hub |
| PCI |
Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCI6 |
PCIe Gen6 |
| PCIe |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| PCIE |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| PCIE5 |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express 5.0 |
| PCIe5 |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express 5.0 |
| PCM |
Phase-Change Memory, Performance Counter Monitor |
| PCO |
PCle Compatible Ordering |
| PCRAM |
Phase-Change Random Access Memory |
| PCS |
Physical Coding Sublayer |
| PCT |
percentage |
| PD |
Photodetectors |
| PDB |
Power Distribution Board |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PDP |
Power Dissipation Profile |
| PDR |
Preliminary Design Review |
| PDS |
Pause of Data Stream |
| PDUs |
Power Distribution Units |
| PE |
Processing Elements |
| PEBS |
Precise Event-Based Sampling |
| PECAM |
PCI Express Component Address Mapping |
| PECFF |
PCIe Enclosure Compatible Form Factor |
| PEI |
Pre-EFI Initialization |
| PERST |
(state name) |
| PESTI |
Peripheral Sideband Tunneling Interface |
| PETSc |
Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation |
| PFA |
Predictive Failure Analysis |
| PFM |
Primary Fabric Manager |
| PFN |
Physical Frame Number, Page Frame Number |
| PFRA |
Pageframe Replacement Algorithm |
| PGAS |
Partitioned Global Address Space |
| PGD |
Page Global Directory |
| PhD |
Doctor of Philosophy |
| PhotoWave |
(Product name)(Lightelligence) |
| PHY |
Physical Layer |
| PI |
Principle Investigator |
| PIA |
Principal Investigating Authority or Principal Investigator Agreement |
| PIC |
Photonic Integrated Circuit, Platform Infrastructure Connectivity |
| PID |
Port Based Routing ID, Process ID |
| PIDF |
Process ID File |
| PIM |
Processing-in-Memory |
| PIRST |
(PCI signal) |
| PLASMA |
(Project name) |
| PLDA |
(Company Name) |
| PLDM |
Platform-Level Data Model |
| PLL |
Physical Link Layer |
| PLM |
Product Lifecycle Management |
| PLPs |
Physical Layer Packets |
| PLX |
(Company Name) |
| PM |
Power Management, Persistent Memory |
| PMCI |
Platform Management Communications Infrastructure |
| PMD |
Page Middle Directory |
| PMDK |
Persistent Memory Development Kit |
| PMEM |
Persistent Memory, Persistent Memory Module |
| PMFS |
(file system name) |
| PMIC |
Power Management Integrated Circuit |
| PMIx |
Process Management Interface - Exascale |
| PMKV |
crash-consistent key-value store on persistent memory |
| PML |
Point-to-Point Messaging Layer |
| PMM |
Pooled Memory Manager, Pluggable Multi-Purpose Module |
| PMP0A08 |
(driver name) (ACPI) |
| PMR |
Persistent Memory Region |
| PMU |
Performance Monitoring Unit |
| PNM |
Processing-near-Memory |
| POC |
Proof of Concept |
| PoC |
Proof of Concept |
| POP |
Processor Optimization Pack |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface |
| POST |
(method name) (HTML) |
| PowerEdge |
(Product name)(Dell) |
| PowerGraph |
(application name) |
| PowerPC |
(Processor name) |
| PPA |
Power, Performance, and Area |
| PPB |
Physical PCI to PCI Bridge |
| PPN |
Processes Per Node |
| PPO |
Proximal Policy Optimization |
| PPR |
Post Package Repair |
| PPS |
Pulse Per Second |
| PR |
Public Relations, Pull Request |
| PR1 |
Pipeline Register 1 |
| PR2 |
Pipeline Register 2 |
| PRAM |
Parameter RAM |
| PrefixRL |
(programme name) (NVIDIA) |
| PRI |
Page Request Interface |
| PROM |
Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| PRP |
Physical Region Page |
| PRS |
Page Request Services |
| PSL |
Power Service Layer |
| PSLC |
pseudo SLC |
| PSM |
Performance Scaled Messaging |
| PST |
Pacific Standard Time |
| PSUs |
Power Supply Units |
| PT |
Page Table |
| PTE |
Page Table Entry |
| PTM |
Precision Time Measurement |
| PTP |
Precision Time Protocol |
| PUD |
Page Upper Directory |
| PUE |
Power Utilization Efficiency |
| PXB |
PCI Expander Bridges |
| PyTorch |
(library name) (OSS) |
| QAM16 |
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation 16 |
| QDR |
Quad Data Rate |
| QEMU |
(Processor emulator name) (OSS) |
| QLC |
Quadruple Level Cell |
| QMP |
QEMU Machine Protocol |
| QoS |
Quality of Service |
| QOS |
Quality of Service |
| QP |
Queue Pair |
| QPI |
QuickPath Interconnect |
| QPS |
Queries Per Second |
| QR |
Quick Response |
| QSFP |
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable |
| QSFPDD |
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double-density |
| QTG |
QoS Throttling Group |
| QTG_DSM |
QTG DSM |
| RabbitMQ |
(middleware name) (OSS) |
| RAG |
Retrieval Augmented Generation |
| RAID |
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RAMFS |
(file system name) |
| RAN |
Radio Access Network |
| RAR |
Read After Read |
| RAS |
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability |
| RAW |
Read After Write |
| RC |
Root Complex, Reliable Connection |
| RCCL |
ROCm Collective Communication Library |
| RCD |
Restricted CXL Device |
| RCEC |
Root Complex Event Collector |
| RCH |
Restricted CXL Host |
| RCiEP |
Root Complex Integrated Endpoint |
| RCRB |
Root Complex Register Block |
| RCU |
Read-Copy-Update |
| RD |
Reference Design |
| RdAny |
(request in CXL) |
| RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
| RdCurr |
(request in CXL) |
| RDE |
Redfish Device Enablement |
| RDI |
Raw D2D Interface |
| RDIMM |
Registered DIMM |
| RDK |
Rapid Development Kit |
| RDMA |
Remote Direct Memory Access |
| RdOwn |
(request in CXL) |
| RdownNoData |
(request in CXL) |
| RdShared |
(request in CXL) |
| RDT |
Resource Director Technology |
| RecSys |
(application name) |
| RedHat |
(Company Name) |
| REF |
Reference design |
| RefClock |
Reference Clock |
| RefLink |
(functional name) (XFS) |
| RegExp |
Regular Expression |
| ReRAM |
Resistive Random Access Memory |
| RESET |
(state name) |
| ResNet |
Residual Neural Networks |
| REST |
Representational State Transfer |
| RESTful |
Representational State Transfer |
| REV |
Revision |
| RF |
Radio Frequency |
| RFC |
Request for Comments |
| RFI |
Request for Information |
| RFP |
Request for Proposal |
| RIP |
Re-Reference Interval Prediction |
| RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RISER |
(Project name) |
| RLM |
Reflective Loss Measurement |
| RMA |
Remote Memory Access |
| RMC |
Rack Management Controller |
| RMCDM |
Rack Management Controller Device Manager |
| RMII |
Reduced Media-Independent Interface |
| RMT |
Reconfigurable Match-Action Tables |
| RNIC |
RDMA NIC |
| RNNT |
Recurrent Neural Network Transducer |
| ROAM |
(Company Name) |
| RoCE |
RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
| RocksDB |
(key-value Database name) (OSS) |
| ROCm |
Radeon Open Compute platform |
| ROI |
Return on Investment |
| ROM |
Read Only Memory |
| RP |
Root Port |
| RP_PIO |
root port I/O error reporting |
| rPCIeBench |
(Benchmark tool name) |
| RPM |
Remote Persistent Memory |
| RPO |
Recovery Point Objective |
| RPS |
Restart Pipe Start |
| RRAM |
Resistive RAM |
| Rsocket |
RDMA Sockets |
| RStudio |
(Integrated development environment name) (OSS) |
| RTC |
Real Time Clock |
| RTL |
Register Transfer Level |
| Rtl |
RunTime Library |
| RTO |
Recovery Time Objective |
| RunBMC |
(hardware specification) (OCP) |
| RV64GC |
(RISC-V ISA Name) |
| RVV |
RISC-V “V” Vector Extension |
| RWF |
Read/Write Flags |
| RX |
Receiver |
| RxFFE |
Receive Feed Forward Equalization |
| S_DAX |
(flag name) |
| S2M |
Subordinate to Master |
| S2M |
Subordinate to Master |
| SaaS |
Software as a Service |
| SACK |
Selective ACKnowledgement |
| SAM |
Serviceable Available Market |
| SambaNova |
(Company Name) |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network |
| SAP |
(Company Name) |
| SAS |
Serial Attached SCSI |
| SAT |
SPID Access Table |
| SATA |
Serial ATA |
| SBBR |
Server Base Boot Requirements |
| SBINIT |
(state name) |
| SBMR |
Server Base Manageability Requirements |
| SBOM |
Software Bill of Materials |
| SBSA |
Server Base System Architecture |
| SC |
Super Computing Conference |
| SC21 |
Super Computing 21 |
| SC22 |
Super Computing 22 |
| SC23 |
Super Computing 23 |
| SC24 |
Super Computing 24 |
| ScaleFlux |
(Company Name) |
| SCL |
Serial Clock |
| SCM |
Storage Class Memory, Secure Control Module |
| SCP |
System Control Processor |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface |
| SD |
Secure Digital |
| SDC |
Storage Developer Conference, Silent Data Corruption |
| SDK |
Software Development Kit |
| SDM |
Software Defined Memory |
| SDNO |
Scalable Density Optimized |
| SDP |
Start of Data Packet, Sockets Direct Protocol |
| SDR |
Single Data Rate |
| SDRAM |
Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory |
| SDXI |
Smart Data Accelerator Interface |
| SEF |
Software Enabled Flash |
| SemiAccurate |
(Company Name) |
| SerDes |
Serializer/Deserializer |
| SEV |
Secure Encrypted Virtualization |
| SFF |
Small Form Factor |
| SFFTA |
Small Form Factor Technology Affiliate |
| SFI |
Streaming Fabric Interface |
| SFP |
Small Form-factor Pluggable |
| SGH |
(Company Name) (SMART Global Holdings) |
| SGI |
(Company Name) (Silicon Graphics International) |
| SGL |
Scatter Gather List |
| SGPIO |
Serial GPIO |
| SHARP |
Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (NVIDIA) |
| SHMEM |
(library name) (SHared MEMory) |
| SI |
System Image, Signal Integrity |
| SIAM |
the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
| SIE |
Security Interface Extension |
| SIF |
Shared InFrastructure |
| SIFT |
Scale-Invariant Feature Transform |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SIGCOMM |
Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group |
| SIM |
Single Inline Memory Module |
| SIMD |
Single Instruction Multiple Data |
| SIOV |
Single-Root I/O Virtualization |
| SIP |
System In Package |
| SiP |
System In Package |
| SiPearl |
(Company Name) |
| SK |
(Company Name) |
| SKU |
Stock Keeping Unit |
| Skyway |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLC |
Single Level Cell |
| SLD |
Single Logical Device |
| SlideShare |
(Name of service) |
| SLIT |
System Locality Information Table |
| SLM |
Subsystem Local Memory |
| SLOB |
Silly Little Oracle Benchmark |
| SLS |
Sparse Lengths Sum |
| SMA |
SubMiniature version A |
| SMART |
(Company Name) (SMART Global Holdings) |
| SmartNIC |
Smart NIC |
| smartNIC |
smart NIC |
| SMB |
(Protocol Name) (Server Message Block) |
| SMB3 |
(Protocol Name) (Server Message Block 3) |
| SMBIOS |
System Management BIOS |
| SMBus |
System Management Bus |
| SMbus |
System Management Bus |
| SMC |
Satellite Management Controller |
| SMDK |
Scalable Memory Development Kit |
| SMEM |
(command name) |
| SMI |
Storage Management Initiative, System Management Interrupt |
| SMM |
System Management Mode |
| SMMU |
System Memory Management Unit |
| SMP |
Symmetric MultiProcessing |
| SMRC |
Samsung Memory Research Center |
| SMS |
Spatial Memory Streaming |
| SMT |
Software Memory Tiering, Surface Mount, Simultaneous Multi-Threading |
| SN |
(Connector name) (SENKO Advanced Components) |
| SNIA |
Storage Networking Industry Association |
| SNP |
Snoop |
| SNR |
Signal-Noise Ratio |
| SO |
Small Outline |
| SoC |
System on a Chip |
| SOC |
System on a Chip |
| SODA |
(SODA Foundation) |
| SO-DIMM |
Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module |
| SOL |
Serial over LAN |
| SONiC |
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud |
| SORA |
(text-to-video generative AI model name) |
| SP |
Scalable Processor |
| SP5 |
(Product name)(Jabil) |
| SpaceX |
(Company Name) |
| SPD |
Serial Presence Detect |
| SPDK |
the Storage Performance Development Kit |
| SPDM |
Security Protocols and Data Models |
| SPEC |
System Performance Evaluation Cooperative |
| SpectrumX |
(Product name)(NVIDIA) |
| SPID |
Source PBR ID |
| SPMV |
Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication |
| SpotSurfer |
(functional name) (MemVerge) |
| SPPR |
Soft Post Package Repair |
| SPR |
Sapphire Rapids |
| SQ |
Submission Queue |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SR |
Single-Root, Short Reach |
| SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory |
| SRAT |
System Resource Affinity Table |
| SRD |
Scalable Reliable Datagram |
| SRIOV |
Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization |
| SSD |
Solid State Drive |
| SSDT |
Secondary System Description Table |
| SSF |
Storage Form Factor |
| SSH |
Secure Shell |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSM |
Scalable Storage Management |
| SST |
Structural Simulation Toolkit |
| STAC |
Securities Technology Analysis Center |
| StarlingX |
(Project name) (OpenInfra Foundation) |
| StorageX |
(Company Name) |
| STP |
Single-Threaded Pipelines, Start of Packet |
| SuperCompute |
(Conference Name) |
| SuperPOD |
(Product name) (NVIDIA) |
| SuperRAM |
(Product name)(ZeroPoint) |
| SUT |
system under test |
| SVA |
Shared Virtual Address |
| SVE |
Scalable Vector Extension |
| SWMR |
Single Writer Multiple Reader |
| SXM |
(form factor name) |
| SYCL |
(Programming model name) |
| SysFS |
(file system name) |
| TA |
Technology Affiliate |
| TA1002 |
TA 1002 |
| TA1034 |
TA 1034 |
| TAD |
Target Address Decoder Registers |
| TAGE |
TAgged GEometric history length branch prediction |
| TAM |
Total Addressable Market |
| TASER |
Testing and Simulation Rig |
| TBB |
Threading Building Blocks |
| TBD |
To Be Determined |
| TCB |
Trusted Computing Base |
| TCG |
Tiny Code Generator |
| TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TDECQ |
Transmitter and Dispersion Eye Closure Quaternary |
| TDISP |
Trusted Device Identity and Security Provisioning |
| TDP |
Thermal Design Power |
| TDR |
Time Domain Reflectometry |
| TE |
(Company Name) |
| TECQ |
Transmitter Eye Closure Quaternary |
| TEE |
Trusted Execution Environment |
| TensorFlow |
(library name) (OSS) |
| TEP |
Technology Enablement Program |
| teraFLOPs |
tera FLoating point number Operations Per Second |
| TeRM |
Extending RDMA-Attached Memory |
| TetraMem |
(Company Name) |
| TFA |
Trusted Firmware-A |
| TFRecord |
(Data format name) |
| TI |
(Company Name) (Texas Instruments) |
| TIA |
Transimpedance Amplifier |
| TIK |
Transaction Integrity Key |
| TikTok |
(Name of service) |
| TIM |
Thermal Interface Material |
| TimePlus |
(Company Name) |
| TIPL |
Texas Instruments Precision Labs |
| TL;DR |
Too Long; Didn't Read |
| TLA |
Three-Letter Acronym |
| TLB |
Translation Lookaside Buffer |
| TLC |
Triple Level Cell |
| TLP |
Transaction Layer Packet |
| TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
| TMAC |
Truncated MAC |
| TMC |
Total Memory Cost |
| TMO |
Transparent Memory Offload in 2022 |
| TOPS |
Tera Operations Per Second |
| TP1 |
Test Point 1a |
| TP1a |
Test Point 1a |
| TP2 |
Test Point 2 |
| TP3 |
Test Point 3 |
| TP4 |
Test Point 4 |
| TP4a |
Test Point 4a |
| TPC |
Transaction Processing Performance Council |
| TPCC |
TPC-C |
| TPCDS |
TPC-Decision Support |
| TPCH |
TPC-ad-Hoc |
| TPCXAI |
TPCx-AI |
| TGPIO |
Time General Purpose Input/Output |
| TPM |
Trusted Platform Module |
| TPP |
Transparent Page Placement |
| TPS |
Transaction Per Second |
| TPU |
Tensor Processing Unit |
| TR |
Transparent Router |
| TSMC |
(Company Name) (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.) |
| TSP |
TEE Security Protocol |
| TSV |
Through-Silicon Vias |
| TTFT |
Time to First Token |
| TTM |
Translation Table Maps |
| TVM |
Trusted Virtual Machine |
| TWG |
Technical Work Group |
| TX |
Transmitter |
| TxFIR |
TX Finite Impulse Response |
| UAL |
Ultra Accelerator Link |
| UALink |
Ultra Accelerator Link |
| UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter |
| UBB |
Universal Building Block |
| UC |
University of California |
| UCC |
Unified Communication Collectives |
| UCIe |
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express |
| UCIE |
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express |
| UCS |
Unified Computing System (Cisco) |
| UCSD |
University of California San Diego |
| UCX |
the Unified Communication X |
| UD |
Unreliable Datagram |
| UDIMM |
Unbuffered DIMM |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UE |
Uncorrectable Error |
| UEC |
Ultra Ethernet Consortium |
| UEFI |
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
| UEPs |
Unsolicited Event Packets |
| UFM |
Unified Fabric Manager |
| UFS |
Universal Flash Storage |
| UI |
Unit Interval |
| UID |
Unique ID (CXL Host Bridge Structure) |
| UIO |
Unordered Input/Output |
| UIUC |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| UltraEthernet |
(interconnect name) (UEC) |
| UltraPath |
(interconnect name) (Intel) |
| UltraScale |
(Product name)(AMD) |
| UMass |
The University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| UMF |
Unified Memory Framework |
| UNH |
University of New Hampshire |
| UnifabriX |
(Company Name) |
| UPF |
User Plane Function, Unified Power Format |
| UPI |
UltraPath interconnect |
| UPmem |
(Company Name) |
| UR |
Unsupported Request |
| URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| UROM |
Unified Runtime Offload Manager |
| US |
United States of America |
| USA |
United States of America |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| USBIF |
USB Implementers Forum |
| UserLib |
user library |
| USM |
Unified Shared Memory |
| USP |
Upstream Switch Port |
| USPTO |
United States Patent and Trademark Office |
| USR |
Ultra Short Reach |
| UT |
The University of Texas at Austin |
| UUID |
Universally Unique Identifier |
| UXL |
Unified Acceleration |
| VA |
Virtual Address |
| VAX |
(Product name) (DEC) |
| VC |
Virtual Channel |
| VCPU |
Virtual CPU |
| vCPU |
Virtual CPU |
| VCS |
Virtual CXL Switch |
| VCS0 |
VCS 0 |
| VCSEL |
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser |
| VDI |
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
| VDM |
Vendor Defined Message |
| VDPA |
Virtual Data Path Acceleration |
| VDT |
Virtual DMA Translation |
| VertIO |
Virtual I/O Device |
| VF |
Virtual Function |
| VFIO |
Virtual Function I/O |
| VFS |
Virtual File System |
| VH |
Virtual Hierarchy |
| VHDL |
VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language |
| VI |
Virtualization Intermediary |
| VIAs |
Vertical Interconnect Accesses |
| VIOMMU |
Virtual IOMMU |
| VIP |
Verification Intellectual Properties |
| VL |
Virtual Lane |
| VLARB |
Virtual Lane Arbitration |
| VLANs |
Virtual Local Area Network |
| Vlasiator |
(Project name) |
| VLSI |
Very Large-Scale Integration |
| VM |
Virtual Machine |
| VM1 |
VM 1 |
| VM2 |
VM 2 |
| VM3 |
VM 3 |
| VM4 |
VM 4 |
| VMA |
Virtual Memory Address |
| VMAP |
Virtual Memory Mapping |
| VMM |
Virtual Machine Monitor |
| VMmark |
(benchmark name)(VMWare) |
| VMotion |
(feature name)(VMWare) |
| VMware |
(Company Name) |
| VNC |
Virtual Network Computing |
| VoltDB |
(In-memory database name) (GPL) |
| VP |
Vice President |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VPPB |
Virtual PCI to PCI Bridge |
| VR |
Very Short Reach |
| VRM |
Voltage Regulator Modules |
| VSA |
Virtualization Services Accelerator |
| vSCSI |
(tool name) (VMWare) |
| VSI |
(benchmark name)(Login VSI) |
| VSR |
Very Short Reach |
| VSVA |
Virtual Shared Virtual Address |
| VXLAN |
Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network |
| WAF |
Write Amplification Factor |
| WAKE |
(PCIe Signal Name) |
| WaveRider |
(functional name) (MemVerge) |
| WaveWatcher |
(functional name) (MemVerge) |
| WDC |
(Company Name) (Western Digital Corporation) |
| WDM |
Wavelength Domain Multiplex |
| WebEx |
(Name of service) |
| WEKA |
(Company Name) |
| WhatsApp |
(Name of service) |
| WIP |
Work In Progress |
| WQE |
Work Queue Element |
| WSE |
Wafer Scale Engine |
| xAI |
(Company Name) |
| XConn |
(Company Name) |
| XD |
eXtended Density |
| XDR |
eXtreme Data Rate |
| XFS |
(file system name) |
| XGBoost |
Extreme Gradient Boosting |
| XGMI |
(interconnect name) (AMD) |
| XHCI |
Extensible Host Controller Interface |
| XIO |
eXtended I/O Connectivity |
| XL-FLASH |
(Product name) (KIOXIA) |
| XOR |
eXclusive OR |
| XORing |
eXclusive Oring |
| XPU |
X Processing Units (Intel) |
| XRC |
eXtended Reliable Connection |
| XSR |
eXtra Short Reach |
| XStore |
(key-value system) |
| XY |
(Routing Algorithm name) |
| YAML |
YAML Ain't Markup Language |
| YCSB |
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark |
| YOLE |
(Company Name) |
| YouTube |
(Company Name) |
| YV3 |
Yosemite V3 |
| YV4 |
Yosemite V4 |
| ZeRO-Infinity |
(library name) (OSS) |
| ZeroPoint |
(Company Name) |
| ZiptilionBW |
(Product name)(ZeroPoint) |
| ZMM |
Gen Z memory modules |
| ZMM0 |
ZMM 0 |
| ZMM1 |
ZMM 1 |
| ZMMU |
Gen-Z Memory Management Unit |
| ZNS |
Zoned Namespace |
| ZONE_MOVABLE |
(flag name) |
| ZR |
Zero Reach |
| ZRAM |
(Linux kernel feature) |
| ZSFF |
Gen-Z Form Factor |