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Mellanox Technologies
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Common Abbreviations and Acronyms
Table 3 - Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation / Acronym Whole Word / Description
B (Capital) ‘B’ is used to indicate size in bytes or multiples of bytes
(e.g., 1KB = 1024 bytes, and 1MB = 1048576 bytes)
b (Small) ‘b’ is used to indicate size in bits or multiples of bits (e.g.,
1Kb = 1024 bits)
FW Firmware
HCA Host Channel Adapter
HW Hardware
IB InfiniBand
LSB Least significant byte
lsb Least significant bit
MSB Most significant byte
msb Most significant bit
NIC Network Interface Card
SW Software
VPI Virtual Protocol Interconnect
IPoIB IP over InfiniBand
PFC Priority Flow Control
PR Path Record
RDS Reliable Datagram Sockets
RoCE RDMA over Converged Ethernet
SL Service Level
MPI Message Passing Interface
EoIB Ethernet over InfiniBand
QoS Quality of Service
ULP Upper Level Protocol
VL Virtual Lane