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G-4
Installation Guide
FCAL: F
ibre
C
hannel
A
rbitrated
L
oop.
FCA: F ibre C hannel A dapter.
FCBQ: F an C ontrol B oard for Q BB.
FCBS: F
an
C
ontrol
B
oard for
S
PS.
FDA: F ibre D isk A rray.
FDD: F loppy D isk D rive.
Flash EPROM:
Flash Erasable Programmable
Read-Only Memory. A type of memory device that
is used to store the the system firmware code. This
code can be replaced by an updated code from a
floppy disk, but is not lost when the computer is
powered off.
Firewall:
A set of related programs, located at a
network gateway server, that protects the resources
of a private network from users from other networks.
Firmware:
an ordered set of instructions and data
stored to be functionally independent of main
storage.
Format: The process used to organize a hard or
floppy disk into sectors so that it can accept data.
Formatting destroys all previous data on the disk.
FPB: F AME P ower B oard (FAME: Flexible
Architecture for Multiple Environments).
FPGA: F ield P rogrammable G ate A rray. A gate
array that can reprogrammed at run time.
FRB: F
ault
R
esilient
B
oot. A server management
feature. FRB attempts to boot a system using the
alternate processor or DIMM.
FRU: F
ield
R
eplaceable
U
nit. A component that is
replaced or added by Customer Service Engineers
as a single entity.
FSS: F
AME
S
calability
S
witch. Each CSS Module is
equipped with 2 Scalability Port Switches providing
high speed bi-directional links between server
components. See SPS.
FTP: F
ile
T
ransfer
P
rotocol. A standard Internet
protocol: the simplest way of exchanging files
between computers on the Internet. FTP is an
application protocol that uses Internet TCP/IP
protocols. FTP is commonly used to transfer Web
page files from their creator to the computer that
acts as their server for everyone on the Internet. It is
also commonly used to download programs and
other files from other servers.
FWH: F irm W are H ub.
G
GB: G iga B yte: 1,073,741,824 bytes. See Byte.
Global MCA: M
achine
C
heck
A
bort is visible to all
processors, in a multiprocessor system and will
force all of them to enter machine check abort.
GUI: G
raphical
U
ser
I
nterface.
GTS: G lobal T elecontrol S erver.
H
HA: H igh A vailability. Refers to a system or
component that is continuously operational for a
desirably long length of time.
HAL: H
ardware
A
bstraction
L
ayer.
HA CMP: H igh A vailability C lustered
M
ulti
P
rocessing.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD. See Disk Drive.
Hardware: The physical parts of a system, including
the keyboard, monitor, disk drives, cables and
circuit cards.
Hardware Monitor:
A PAM feature used to
supervise server operation.
HBA: H ost B us A dapter.
HDD: H ard D isk D rive. See Disk Drive.
History File:
A file in which the History Manager
logs informative messages or error messages
relating to system activity. Messages are sent from
source components to target components.
History Manager:
The component running on the
PAP Windows operating system that logs messages
to history files.
HMMIO Space:
High Memory IO Space.
HPB: H ot P lug B oard. This board provides an
interlock switch on each IO Box PCI slot for hot-
swapping PCI boards. See P-HPB.
HPC: H igh P erformance C omputing.
Hot plugging:
The operation of adding a
component without interrupting system activity.
Hot swapping: The operation of removing and
replacing a faulty component without interrupting
system activity.
HTTP: H yper T ext T ransfer P rotocol. In the World
Wide Web, a protocol that facilitates the transfer of
hypertext-based files between local and remote
systems.
HW Identifier: Number (0 - F) used to identify
Cellblock components. This number is identical to
PMB code-wheel position.