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4 Abbreviations and acronyms

This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
AC Alternating Current

AI Artificial intelligence
API Application Programming Interface

ATA AT Attachment
CD Compact Disc
CPU Central Processing Unit

CSC Cloud Service Customer
CSP Cloud Service Provider

DC Direct Current
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
ECC Error Correcting Code

FSC Fan Speed Control
GPU Graphics Processing Unit

HDD Hard Disk Drive
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit

IDE Integrated Development Environment
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IT Information Technology
I/O Input/Output

iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
NIC Network Interface Card

NFV Network Function Virtualization
NGFF Next Generation Form Factor
mSATA Mini-Serial AT Attachment

OPEX Operational Expenditure
OS Operating System

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-E Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

PDU Power Distribution Unit
PMBus Power Management Bus

PWM Pulse Width Modulation
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RPM Revolutions Per Minute

ROM Read-Only Memory

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