Units
Acronym |
Meaning |
|---|---|
Kb |
Kilobit (1000 bits) |
Mb |
Megabit (1000 Kb) |
Gb |
Gigabit (1000 Mb) |
Acronym |
Meaning |
|---|---|
KB |
Kilobyte (1000 bytes) |
MB |
Megabyte (1000 KB) |
GB |
Gigabyte (1000 MB) |
TB |
Terabyte (1000 GB) |
PB |
Petabyte (1000 TB) |
Acronym |
Meaning |
|---|---|
KiB |
Kibibyte (1024 bytes) |
MiB |
Mebibyte (1024 KiB) |
GiB |
Gibibyte (1024 MiB) |
TiB |
Tebibyte (1024 GiB) |
PiB |
Pebibyte (1024 TiB) |
The KB, MB, GB, and TB acronyms may refer to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB in some cases. This will usually only be when manufacturers publish information in this way. Note: The IEC binary prefixes (e.g., KiB) were only introduced in 2007.
Network Services
Acronym |
Expanded |
|---|---|
GbE |
Gigabit Ethernet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GbE) |
IB |
Infiniband (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand) - QDR=40Gb/s |
IP |
Internet Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol) |
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol) |
Storage Services
Acronym |
Expanded |
|---|---|
CIFS |
Common Inter File System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs) |
HSM |
Hierarchical Storage Management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management) |
NAS |
Network Attached Storage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage) |
NFS |
Network File System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System) |
Others
Acronym |
Expanded |
|---|---|
HPC |
High Performance Computing (legacy) |
HPRC |
High Performance and Research Computing |
MPI |
Message Passing Interface(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface) |
VM |
Virtual Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine) |