SAN
Storage Area Network — a dedicated high-speed network providing block-level access to shared storage for databases, virtualization, and enterprise workloads.
IT & HPC Glossary
A comprehensive glossary of terms and definitions covering IT infrastructure, high-performance computing, enterprise storage, networking, and data center technologies.
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SDS
Software-Defined Storage — an approach that separates storage intelligence from hardware, enabling storage services on commodity infrastructure.
Singularity
A container platform for HPC that runs without root privileges, enabling reproducible scientific computing on shared clusters.
SLURM
Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management — the dominant open-source job scheduler for HPC clusters and supercomputers.
Snapshot
A space-efficient, point-in-time copy of data using copy-on-write techniques, enabling rapid backup and recovery with minimal storage overhead.