Units
Acronym |
Meaning |
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Acronym |
Meaning |
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Acronym |
Meaning |
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Acronym |
Meaning |
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Kb |
Kilobit (1000 bits) |
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Mb |
Megabit (1000 Kb) |
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Gb |
Gigabit (1000 Mb) |
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KB |
Kilobyte (1000 bytes) |
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MB |
Megabyte (1000 KB) |
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GB |
Gigabyte (1000 MB) |
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TB |
Terabyte (1000 GB) |
KiB |
Kibibyte (1024 bytes) |
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MiB |
Mebibyte (1024 KiB) |
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GiB |
Gibibyte (1024 MiB) |
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TiB |
Tebibyte (1024 GiB) |
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.
Other 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 |
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High Performance Computing |
HSM |
Storage |
Hierarchical Storage Management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management) |
IB |
Networking |
Infiniband (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand) - QDR=40Gb/s |
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) |