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Glossary
Glossary
Acronym or Term Definition
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
SDR Sensor Data Record
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
UP Uni Processor
DP Dual Processor
SMI System Management Interrupt
HPC/HDC cluster A collection of servers interconnected by a local high-speed
network.
Compute node A single server in the HPC/HDC cluster, which will execute compute
jobs or provide other support services to the HPC/HDC cluster.
Management
console
The computer node of the HPC/HDC cluster which provides
centralized management. The entire HPC/HDC cluster is managed
via the management console, with a single coherent view of the
cluster. On a HPC cluster, this capability may be provided on the
“head node.”
HPC/HDC
provisioning
bootstrap
The combination of the Intel Rapid Boot Toolkit BIOS and the
Payload.
Embedded
Operating System
Intel Rapid Boot Toolkit Payload is Operating System agnostic. This
could be a light weight Linux kernel, Win PE or any other customer
preferred Operating System.
Deep Boot Conventional BIOS boot, as implemented in Intel Server products,
where extensive board configuration, initialization, and diagnostics
are performed, before any Operating System boot occurs.
Shallow Boot Early redirection of the BIOS boot process, after CPU, memory, and
chipset initialization, to load an EFI Payload. See also Deep Boot.
Intel Rapid Boot
BIOS
The board BIOS shipped to the OEM vendor, exclusive of 3rd-party
code. The Intel Rapid Boot Toolkit BIOS is derived from an APTIO
code base, and has the added ability to redirect the boot process at
an early stage to an EFI Payload, either from Flash ROM, or from a
USB based device (using an intermediate payload). This redirection
path is called “shallow boot.”
“pre-boot” A bit of a misnomer, the term is used to denote the interception of
boot via the shallow boot path, allowing the customer/end user to
insert functionality in a manner analogous to extending the BIOS.
For a “normal” scenario, one might catch the platform exiting the
shallow boot path, boot a payload containing an Operating System
running a queuing client, and have the queuing client actually load
the “post-boot” operating system. Thus the “pre-boot”
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