Units
Acronym - Meaning | Acronym - Meaning | Acronym - Meaning | Acronym - Meaning | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kb - Kilobit (1000 bits) | Mb - Megabit (1000 Kb) | Gb - Gigabit (1000 Mb) | Tb - Terabit (1000 Gb) | |||
KB - Kilobyte (1000 bytes) | MB - Megabyte (1000 KB) | GB - Gigabyte (1000 MB) | TB - Terabyte (1000 GB) | |||
KiB - Kibibyte (1024 bytes) | MiB - Mebibyte (1024 KiB) | GiB - Gibibyte (1024 MiB) | TiB - Tebibyte (1024 GiB) |
Notes: 1 byte = 8 bits. Use of the above units shorthand is inconsistent. Networking devices tend to refer to Kb/Mb/Gb/Tb, storage devices tend to refer to KB/MB/GB/TB, while system administrators tend to refer to KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB. The IEC binary prefixes (e.g., KiB) were first introduced in 2007.
Acronyms
Acronym | Association | Expanded |
|---|---|---|
CIFS | Storage | Common Inter File System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs) |
GbE | Networking | Gigabit Ethernet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GbE) |
HPC | High Performance Computing | |
IP | Networking | Internet Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol) |
MPI | HPC | Message Passing Interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface) |
NAS | Storage | Network Attached Storage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage) |
NFS | Storage | Network File System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System) |
TCP | Networking | Transmission Control Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol) |
VM | Systems | Virtual Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine) |