Glossary
- ACPI - The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open standard for unified operating system-centric device configuration and power management.
- CPUID - CPU Identification
- ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment, an interface for computer storage devices
- DMI - Desktop Management Interface, in computers, a part of System Management BIOS
- GPU - Graphics processing unit. A graphics processing unit or GPU (also occasionally called visual processing unit or VPU) is a specialized processor that offloads 3D graphics rendering from the microprocessor. In 2008, Intel, NVIDIA and AMD/ATI were the market share leaders, with 49.4%, 27.8% and 20.6% market share respectively.
- IPMI - The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system which system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system.
- PCI - PCI Local Bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect),
- PM - Particle Mesh (PM) is a computational method for determining the gravity forces in a system of particles.
- SMART - Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or S.M.A.R.T. (sometimes written as SMART), is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.
- SPD - PC SDRAM serial Presence Detect
- VM - Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space), while in fact it may be physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage.
