Chapter 4: Introduction to hardware technology Flashcards
Most file for a file server request traffic uses from ?
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direct memory access (DMA)
what is Cache?
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Is part of the memory subsystem, is physically packaged with the processor these
What is PCI Bus
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The PCI bus is the “pipe” along which all data traverses into and out of the server
What is Memory?
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Memory is critical to a server’s performance.
A feature in the Enterprise X-Architecture® System x servers is?
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memory mirroring for increased fault tolerance.
What is The feature, part of IBM Active Memory™, equivalent to what ?
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It is roughly equivalent to RAID-1 in disk arrays.
What is is the pyramid of online storage devices?
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cache, memory, and disk
What is used on all System X Servers improve price-performance and scalability.
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Serial technologies
What does the LAN Adapter gains access too?
Class Notes
to the PCI bus as a bus master device and place this memory address on the PCI address bus
What does the memory controller communicate with directly? (class notes)
DRAM (Direct Random Access Memory)
Data Transfer is on a PCI Bus is called?
Class Notes
Transaction
A PCI Device is called?
Class Notes
Agents
An Agent that initiated bus Transfers are call?
Class Notes
initiated
