4. Technical Details

Exported
Hardware
Component Name            Description                          Stability
----------------         --------------                       ------------
bank                 a grouping of memory DIMMs               Sun Private
blade                a plug-in board in telco/netra systems   Sun Private
core                 a grouping of one or more cpu strands    Sun Private
dram                 individual chip on a DIMM                Sun Private
memory-buffer        next-gen memory controller (BoB)         Sun Private
micro-core           a sub-unit of a core (Rock concept)      Sun Private
riser           infrastructure board for memory or IO devices Sun Private
shelf                a container holding one or more blades   Sun Private

These scheme names are presented as part of the FMA portfolio for the new
sun4v platform independent topology enumerator:

http://wikihome.sfbay.sun.com/fma-portfolio/Wiki.jsp?page=2008.015.sun4v_pi_enumerator