| ABT |
Argobots |
| ACL |
Access Control List |
| ACE |
Access Control Entry |
| ACID |
Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability |
| BIO |
Blob I/O |
| CART |
Collective and RPC Transport |
| CGO |
Go tools that enable creation of Go packages that call C code |
| CN |
Compute Node |
| COTS |
Commercial off-the-shelf |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| Daemon |
A process offering system-level resources. |
| DAOS |
Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage |
| PMEM |
Intel Optane Persistent Memory |
| DPDK |
Data Plane Development Kit |
| dRPC |
DAOS Remote Procedure Call |
| gRPC |
gRPC Remote Procedure Calls |
| GURT |
A common library of Gurt Useful Routines and Types |
| HLC |
Hybrid Logical Clock |
| HLD |
High-level Design |
| ISA-L |
Intel Storage Acceleration Library |
| I/O |
Input/Output |
| KV store |
Key-Value store |
| libfabric |
Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) libfabric library |
| Mercury |
A user-space RPC library that can use OFI libfabric or UCX as a transport |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
| NVM |
Non-Volatile Memory |
| NVMe |
Non-Volatile Memory express |
| OFI |
Open Fabrics Interfaces |
| OS |
Operating System |
| PM |
Persistent Memory |
| PMDK |
Persistent Memory Devevelopment Kit |
| RAFT |
Raft is a consensus algorithm used to distribute state transitions among DAOS server nodes. |
| RAS |
Reliability, Availability & Serviceability |
| RDB |
Replicated Database, containing pool metadata and maintained across DAOS servers using the Raft algorithm. |
| RDMA/RMA |
Remote (Direct) Memory Access |
| RDG |
Redundancy Group |
| RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
| SCM |
Storage-Class Memory |
| SPDK |
Storage Performance Development Kit |
| SSD |
Solid State Drive |
| SWIM |
Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style process group Membership Protocol |
| UCP |
Unified Communication Protocols (high-level API of UCX) |
| UCS |
Unified Communication Transports (low-level API of UCX) |
| UCT |
Unified Communication Services (common utilities of UCX) |
| UCX |
Unified Communication X (includes UCP, UCT and UCS) |
| ULT |
User Level Thread |
| UPI |
Intel Ultra Path Interconnect |
| UUID |
Universal Unique Identifier |
| VOS |
Versioning Object Store |