Glossary
- SA
Subnet Administrator/Administration
- SC
Service Channel
- SCSC
Service Channel to Service Channel - This signifies mapping service channels to service channels and is often used in a mapping table.
- SCVLT
Service Channel to Virtual Lane Transmit - This signifies mapping service channels to virtual lane transmits and is often used in a mapping table.
- SDR
Single Data Rate - This is a computer network communications link used in computing; approximately 2.5 Gbps.
- SI
Signal Integrity - This is a set of measures of the quality of an electrical signal.
- SL
Service Level
- SLID
Source Local Identifier
- SLSC
Switch Load and Signal Conditioning
- SLURM
Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management - This is an open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels.
- SM
Subnet Manager or Subnet Management
- SMA
Subnet Management Agent
- SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol - This is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior.
- SRP
SCSI RDMA Protocol - This allows one computer to access SCSI devices attached to another computer via RDMA, increasing throughput and lowering latency.
Stream Reservation Protocol - This is an enhancement to Ethernet that implements admission control to reserve resources for time-sensitive traffic.
- SSH
Secure Shell - This is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network
- SSL
Secure Socket Layer - This is a protocol for establishing secure links between networked computers