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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 eServer pSeries computers is used by the I/O bridge to translate addresses generated by I/O devices into physical addresses. The technology is also called an I/O memory management unit, or IOMMU
IOMMU
In computing, an input/output memory management unit is a memory management unit that connects a DMA-capable I/O bus to the main memory...

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External links

  • ibm.com "Logical Partition Security in the IBM eServer pSeries 690", an explanation of logical partitioning on IBM pSeries systems.
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