Grid Acronym Soup (GAS)
Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZAAI - Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
ACF - ATLAS Computing Facility
ACID - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
ACL - Access Control List
ADD - Architecture Design Document
AFS - Andrew File System
AG - Access Grid
AGSC - Access Grid Support Centre
AHE - Applications Hosting Environment
AII - Automated Installation Infrastructure
AJO - Abstract Job Object
AKT - Advanced Knowledge Technologies
ALFA - América Latina - Formación Académica
ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment
ALiEn - ALICE Environment
AMGA - ARDA Metadata Catalogue Project
AMI (1) - Amazon Machine Images
AMI (2) - Atlas Metadata Interface
AMS - Advanced Multi-threaded Server
ANL - Argonne National Laboratory
AOD - Analysis Object Data
APAC - Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
API - Application Programming Interface
APEL - Accounting Processor for Event Logs
APGrid - Asia Pacific Grid
APROC - Asia Pacific Regional Operation Center
APT - Advanced Package Tool
APART - Automatic Performance Analysis: Resources and Tools
ARC (1) - Advanced Resource Connector
ARC (2) - Authenticated Remote Control
ARDA - A Realisation of Distributed Analysis for LHC
AS - Autonomous System
ASN.1 - Abstract Syntax Notation One
ASP - Application Service Provider
ASTA - Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications
ATF - Architecture Task Force
ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS
ATP - Aggregated Topology Provider
AUP - Acceptable Use Policy
AVO - Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
Back to top BAM - Business Activity Monitoring
BAR (1) - Business Archive
BAR (2) - Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation
BCP - Best Common Practices
BDII - Berkeley Database Information Index
BEinGRID - Business Experiments in GRID
BER - Basic Encoding Rules
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BIRN - Biomedical Informatics Research Network
BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
BPMI - Business Process Management Initiative
BPML - Business Process Modeling Language
BPMS - Business Process Management System
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
Back to top C3Grid - Collaborative Climate Community Data and Processing Grid
CA - Certification Authority
CACR - Center for Advanced Computing Research
CAOPS - Certification Authorities Operations
CAS - Community Authorization Service
CASTOR - CERN Advanced Storage manager
CCA - Common Component Architecture
CDB - Configuration Database
CDDLM - Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management
CE - Compute Element
CEDAR - Combined e-Science Data Analysis Resource for high-energy physics
CER - Canonical Encoding Rules
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
CERT/CC - CERT Coordination Center
CIC - Core Infrastructure Center
CIFS - Common Internet File System
CIM - Common Information Model
CIS - Common Information Service
CLI - Command Line Interface
CLIP - Command Line Interface in Python
CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMS - Compact Muon Solenoid
CMT - Configuration Management Tool
CoAKTinG - Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
COD - Central Operator on Duty
CoG - Commodity Grid Toolkit
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORDIS - Community Research and Development Information Service
CP - Certificate Policy
CPS - Certificate Practices Statement
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRL - Certificate Revocation List
CREAM - Computing Resource Execution And Management
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CRRB - Computing Resources Review Board
CS - Computer Science
CSAR - Computer Services for Academic Research
CSF - Central Simulation Facility
CSIRT - Computer Security Incident Response Team
CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVS - Concurrent Versions System
Back to top D-Grid - Deutsche Grid-Initiative
DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph
DAI - Data Access and Integration
DAMIEN - Distributed Application and Middleware for Industrial use of European Networks
DANTE - Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe
DCAP - dCache Access Protocol
DAS - Dynamic Accounts Service
DCI - Distributed Computing Infrastructure
DCC - Digital Curation Centre
DCCP - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
DDM - The Data Distribution Manager
DEGREE - Dissemination and Exploitation of Grids in Earth science
DEISA - Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
DER - Distinguished Encoding Rules
DESY - Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
DFDL - Data Format Description Language
DFN - Deutsches Forschungsnetz
DGAS - Distributed Grid Accounting System
DGI - D-Grid Integration project
DGMS - Data Grid Management System
DGRA - Data Grid Reference Architecture
DGSI - D-Grid Scheduler Interoperability
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIAL - Distributed Interactive Analysis of Large datasets
DIANE - Distributed Analysis Environment
DIB - Directory Information Base
DIRAC - Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control
DIT - Directory Information Tree
DFS - Distributed File System
DMS - Data Management System
DMSU - Deployed Middleware Support Unit
DMTF - Distributed Management Task Force
DN - Distinguished Name
DNS - Domain Name System
DPM - Disk Pool Manager
DPSS - Distributed Parallel Storage System
DQP - Distributed Query Processor
DRO - Data Replication Option
DRS - Data Replication Service
DTD - Document Type Definition
DTEAM - Deployment Team
DTF - Distributed Terascale Facility
DTML - Document Template Markup Language
Back to top e-IRG - e-Infrastructures Reflection Group
EA - Early Adopter
EAR - Enterprise Archive
EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud
EDG - European DataGrid Project
EDGI - European Desktop Grid Initiative
EDIKT - European DataGrid Project
EEF - European e-Infrastructure Forum
EES - Execution Environment Service
EGA - Enterprise Grid Alliance
EGEE - Enabling Grids for e-science
EGI - European Grid Infrastructure
EGI-InSPIRE - EGI Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
EGSO - European Grid of Solar Observations
EIRO - European Intergovernmental Research Organisation
EIS - Experiment Integration Support
ELFMS - Extremely Large Fabric Management System
EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EMI - European Middleware Initiative
EMS - Execution Management Service
ENACTS - European Network for Advanced Computing Technology for Science
EPCC - Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
EPR - End Point Reference
ERIC - European Research Infrastructure Consortium
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
ERPANET - Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
ES-LoA - e-Infrastructure Security: Authentication Levels of Assurance
ESD - Event Summary Data
ESFRI - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
ESG - Earth Systems Grid
ESLEA - Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for e-Science Applications
ESNET - Energy Sciences Network
ESNW - E-Science North West
ETF - Engineering Task Force
EU - European Union
EUGridPMA - European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication
ETICS - eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software
Back to top FAI - Fully Automated Installation
FCR - Freedom of Choice for Resources
FCFS - First-come, first-served
Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FiReMan - File and Replica Manager
FIPA - Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second
FP 6 - Framework Programme 6
FQAN - Fully Qualified Attribute Name
FQHN - Fully Qualified Host Name
FQID - Fully Qualified Job Identifier
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTS - File Transfer Service
FZK - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Back to top GAA - Generic Authorization and Access
GAARDS - Grid Authentication and Authorization with Reliably Distributed Services
GACL - Grid ACL
GAG - Grid Application Group
GAMI - Grid Application Monitoring Infrastructure
GANGA - Gaudi / Athena and Grid Alliance
GARR - Gruppo per l'Armonizzazione delle Reti della Ricerca
GAS - Grid Acronym Soup
GASS - Globus Access to Secondary Storage
GCAS - Globus Community Authorization Service
GCN - Grid Computing Now
GDA - Grid Deployment Area
GDB - Grid Deployment Board
GDMP (1) - Grid Data Management Pilot
GDMP (2) - Grid Data Mirroring Package
GDP - Globus Documentation Project
GDTE - Globus Development Tools for Eclipse
GÉANT - Pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network
GEM - Globus Executable Management
GENIUS (1) - Grid Enabled Neurosurgical Imaging Using Simulation
GENIUS (2) - Grid Enabled Web Environment for Site Independent User Job Submission
GEODE - Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
GFAL - Grid File Access Layer
GFD - Grid Final Document
GFS - Grid File System
GFSG - Grid Forum Steering Group
GGF - Global Grid Forum
GGUS - Global Grid User Support
GID - Group Identifier
GIIS - Grid Information Index Server
GILDA - Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities
GIP - Generic Information Provider
GIS - Grid Information Service
GLUE - Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment
GMA - Grid Monitoring Architecture
GNT - Grid Network Team
GNU - GNU’s Not Unix
GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
GOC - Grid Operations Center
GOCDB - Grid Operations Center Database
GOG - Global Operational Grid
GOS - Grid Object Specification
GOSC - Grid Operations Support Centre
GPFS-WAN - Global Parallel File System-Wide Area Network
GPI - Ganga Public Interface
GPL - GNU General Public License
GPT - Grid Packaging Tools
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
GRAAP - Grid Resource Allocation and Agreement Protocol
GRAM - Grid Resource Allocation Manager
GRAPNEL - Graphical Process Net Language
GRED - Grapnel Editor
GREnaDe - Grid Enabled Desktop Environment
GRIA - Grid Resources for Industrial Applications
GridCC - Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation
GridFTP - Grid File Transfer Protocol
GridPP - Grid for UK Particle Physics
GRIDS - Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support
GRIF - Grille Recherche en Ile de France
GRIP (1) - Grid Resource Information Protocol
GRIP (2) - Grid Interoperability Project
GriPhyN - Grid Physics Network
GRIS - Grid Resource Information Service
GRM - Grid Application Monitor
GRNET - Greek Research and Technology Network
GRP - Grid Resource Provider
GRRP - Grid Resource Registration Protocol
GRRS - Grid Resource Registration Service
GRS - Grid Resource Scheduling
GRSE - Grid Resource Scheduling Environment
GSC - UK Grid Support Centre
GSI - Grid Security Infrastructure
GSIFTP - Grid Security Infrastructure File Transfer Protocol
GSM - Grid Storage Management
GStat - Grid Statistics
GSVG - Grid Security Vulnerability Group
GTA - Grid Technology Area
GTK - Globus Toolkit
GTS - Grid Trust Service
GTTF - Grid Tools Task Force
GUID - Grid Unique Identifier
GUMS - Grid User Management System
GWD - Grid Working Draft
Back to top HBA - Host Bus Adapter
HDF5 - Hierarchical Data Format 5
HECToR - High End Computing Terascale Resource
HELEN - High Energy Physics Latinamerican-European Network
HENPIG - High Energy and Nuclear Physics InterGrid
HEP - High Energy Physics
HEPCAL - HEP Common Application Layer
HEPCG - High Energy Physicists Community Grid
HEPL - High Energy Physics Linux
HLR - Home Location Register
HPC - High Performance Computing
HPDC - High Performance Distributed Computing
HPSS - High Performance Storage System
HSM - Hierarchical Storage Manager
HTC - High Throughput Computing
HTML - Hypertext Mark-Up Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure sockets
HUC - Heavy User Communities
Back to top IaaS - Infrastructure-as-a-Service
IAB - Internet Architecture Board
ICE - Interface to CREAM Environment
ICEAGE - International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education
ICS - Image Creation Station
IDB - Incarnation Database
IDE - Integrated Development Environment
IDL - Interface Description Language
IdP - Identity Provider
IDS - Intrusion Detection System
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEPM-BW - Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring - Bandwidth to the World
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IGE - Initiative for Globus in Europe
IGTF - International Grid Trust Federation
IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules
INCITS - International Committee for Information Technology Standards
INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
INFOD - Information Dissemination
IP - Internet Protocol
IPG (1) - Infrastructure Policy Group
IPG (2) - Information Power Grid
IPSec - IP Security
IRC - Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
IRTF - Incident Response Task Force
iSGTW - International Science Grid This Week
ISO - International Standardization Organization
ISSeG - Integrated Site Security for Grids
IST - Information Society Technologies
ISV - Independent Software Vendor
ITU-T - International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector
IVDGL - International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
Back to top JANET - Joint Academic Network
JCSR - JISC Committee for the Support of Research
JDBC - Java DataBase Connectivity
JDK - Java Development Kit
JDL - Job Description Language
JEE - Java Enterprise Edition
JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee
JMS - Java Message Service
JRA - Joint Research Activity
JRS - JANET Roaming Service
JSDL - Job Submission Description Language
JSPG - Joint Security Policy Group
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
JVM - Java Virtual Machine
JeOS - Just Enough Operating System
Back to top KCA - Kerberized Certificate Authority
Back to top LaaS - Landscape as a Service
LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
LAN - Local Area Network
LB - Logging and Bookkeeping Service
LCAS - Local Centre Authorisation Service
LCG - LHC Computing Grid
LCMAPS - Local Credential Mapping Service
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF - LDAP Data Interchange Format
LEAD - Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
LEAF - LHC-Era Automated Fabric
LEMON - LHC Era Monitoring
LFC - LCG File Catalog
LFN - Logical File Name
LHC - Large Hadron Collider
LHCb - Large Hadron Collider beauty
LHCf - Large Hadron Collider forward
LIGO - Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
LRMS - Local Resource Management System
LSF - Load Sharing Facility
LSGC - Life Sciences Grid Community
LUFS - Linux Userland FileSystem
LUN - Logical Unit Number
Back to top MAC (1) - Media Access Control
MAC (2) - Message Authentication Code
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MBR - Master Boot Record
MD5 - Message Digest 5
MDS - Monitoring and Discovery System
MIAS - Medical Image and Signal
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MINOS - Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search
MMX - Multi Media Extension
MonALISA - Monitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture
MONARC - Models Of Networked Analysis at Regional Centres
MoU - Memorandum of Understanding
MPI - Message Passing Interface
MPLS - Multi-Protocol-Label Switching
MVC - Model-View-Control
Back to top NAREGI - National Research Grid Initiative
NAS - NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
NAT - Network Address Translation
NCSA (1) - Nagios Service Check Acceptor
NCSA (2) - National Center for Supercomputing Applicatons
NDGF - Nordic DataGrid Facility
NEES - Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
NeSC - National e-Science Centre
NESSI - Networked European Software and Services Initiative
NextGRID - Next Generation Grid
NFS - Network File System
NGI - National Grid Initiative
NGI-DE - National Grid Initiative - Deutschland
NGOC - National Grid Operations Centre
NGPP - National Grid Pilot Platform
NGS - National Grid Service
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIS - Network Information Service
NISCC - National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre
NJS - Network Job Supervisor
NMI - NSF Middleware Initiative
NOC - Network Operation Center
NPACI - National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
NREN (1) - National Research and Education Network
NREN (2) - NASA Research and Education Network
NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
NSF - National Science Foundation
NTP - Network Time Protocol
NVO - National Virtual Observatory
NWS - Network Weather Service
Back to top OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OAT - Operations Automation Team
OCC - Operations Coordination Center
OCSP - Online Certificate Status Protocol
OGCE - Open Grid Collaboration Environment
OGF - Open Grid Forum
OGSA - Open Grid Services Architecture
OGSI - Open Grid Services Infrastructure
OLA - Operational Level Agreement
OMB - Operations Management Board
OMG - Object Management Group
OMII - Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
OPN - Optical Private Network
OSCT - Operational Security Coordination Team
OSG - Open Science Grid
OTAG - Operational Tools Advisory Group
OTF - Organisation Task Force
OVF - Open Virtual Machine Format
Back to top P-GRADE - Parallel Grid Run-time and Application Development Environment
PaaS - Platform-as-a-Service
PACMAN - Package Manager
PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
PanDA - Production and Distributed Analysis
PASTE - Production and Analysis System Tools Environment
PBS - Portable Batch System
PDF - Portable Document Format
PEGASUS - Particle Physics Engagment with the Grid, A Socio-technical Usability Study
PEM - Privacy Enhanced Mail
PFN - Physical File Name
PhEDEx - Physics Experiment Data Export
PHP - Personal home page
PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standard
PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
PMA - Policy Management Authority
PMB - Project Management Board
POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface for Unix
PPDG - Particle Physics Data Grid
PPS - Pre Production Services
PRAGMA - Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly
Back to top QCOW - QEMU Copy-On-Write
QoS - Quality of Service
Back to top RA - Registration Authority
RACF - The RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility
RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAT - Risk Assessment Team
RB - Resource Broker
RC - Resource Centre
RDBMS - Relation Database Management System
RDIG - Russian Data Intensive Grid
RFIO - Remote File I/O
RFT - Reliable File Transfer
R-GMA - Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture
RHIC - Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
RI - Resource Infrastructure
RLI - Replica Location Index
RLS - Replica Location Service
RMOST - Result Monitoring and Online Steering Tool
RMS - Resource Management System
ROC - Regional Operations Centre
ROD - Regional Operator on Duty
RP - Resource Provider
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RPM - RPM Package Manager
RRD - Round-robin database
RSH - Remote shell
RSL - Resource Specification Language
RT - Request Tracker
RTM - Real Time Monitor
RUQI - Resource Usage Querying Interface
RUS - Resource Usage Service
Back to top SaaS - Software-as-a-Service
SAM - Service Availability Monitoring
SAML - Security Assertion Markup Language
SAN - Storage Area Network
SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SC - Supercomputing
SCAS - Site Central Authorization Service
SCG - Security Coordination Group
SCiDAC - Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
SCRAM - Software Configuration, Release And Management
SDG - Security Drill Group
SDK - Software Development Kit
SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer Center
SE - Storage Element
SEE-GRID - South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development
SEQUIN - Service Quality across Independently managed Networks
SFN - Storage File Name
SFT - Site Functional Tests
SGAS - SweGrid Accounting System
SGE - Sun Grid Engine
SGM - Software Group Manager
SGTW - Science Grid This Week
SIENA - Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure
SIMD - Single instruction, multiple data
SL - Scientific Linux
SLA - Service Level Agreement
SLAPD - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
SLES - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLED - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLOC - Source Lines Of Code
SLP - Service Location Protocol
SMG - Security Monitoring Group
SMP - Symmetric Multi-Processing
SNAP - Service Negotiation and Acquisition Protocol
SNMP - Simple Network Mangement Protocol
SNO - Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
SoD - Support on Duty
SOKU - Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities
SPG - Security Policy Group
SPL - Simplified Policy Language
SQL - Structured Query Language
SQMS - Simple Queuing Management System
SR - Standing Reservation
SRB - Storage Resource Broker
SRM - Storage Resource Manager
SRP - Secure Remote Passsword Protocol
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSG - Security Software Group
SSH - Secure Shell
SSI - Software Sustainability Institute
SSL - Secure Socket Layer
STDG - Security Training and Dissemination Group
STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project
SUPER - Study of User Priorities for e-Infrastructure for Research
SURL - Storage URL
SVE - Supercomputing, Visualization and e-Science
SVG - Software Vulnerabity Group
SWAT - Site Wide Area Testing
Back to top TAB - Technical Advisory Board
TACAR - TERENA Academic CA Repository
TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center
TAG - Transatlantic Grid
TCB - Technical Coordination Board
TCG - Trusted Computing Group
TCO - Total Cost of Ownership
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCPA - Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
TD - Target Date
TDR - Technical Design Report
TERENA - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TFN - Transport File Name
TLP - Traffic Light Protocol
TLS - Transport Layer Security
TMDB - Transfer Management Database
ToR - Terms of Reference
TORQUE - Terascale Open-Source Resource and Queue Manager
TPM - Ticket Process Manager
TSI - Target System Interface
TURL - Transport URL
TVN - Thames Valley Network
TWG - Training Working Group
Back to top UC/ANL - University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory
UCAID - University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
UCB - User Community Board
UCS - Universal Character Set
UCST - User Community Support Team
UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UGP - The UCLA Grid Portal Software
UI - User Interface
UID - User Identifier
UKERNA - United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association
UKHEC - UK High End Computing
UKI - UK and Ireland region
UKQCD - UK Quantum ChromoDynamics Collaboration
ULM - Universal Logger Message
UMD - Unified Middleware Distribution
UML - Unified Modeling Language
UNICORE - Uniform Interface to Computing Resources
UR - Usage Record
URD - User Requirements Document
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USAG - User Services Advisory Group
UTF-8 - UCS Transformation Format-8
UUDB - UNICORE User Database
Back to top VA - Virtual Appliance
VAG - Virtual Access Grid
vBNS - very high-speed Backbone Network Service
VDL - Virtual Data Language
VDS - Virtual Data System
VDT - Virtual Data Toolkit
VHD - Virtual Hard Disk
VIF - Virtual Interface
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
VM - Virtual Machine
VMDK - Virtual Machine Disk Format
VMM - Virtual Machine Monitor
VNC - Virtual Network Computing
VWS - Virtual Workspace Service
VO - Virtual Organization
VLDB - Very Large Databases
VOCE - Virtual Organization Central Europe
VOMS - Virtual Organization Membership Service
VOMRS - Virtual Organization Management Registration Service
VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
VRC - Virtual Research Community
VPN - Virtual Private Network
Back to top W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAR - Web Service Archive
WEEP - Workflow Enactment Engine Project
WfMC - Workflow Management Coalition
WfMS - Workflow Management System
WLCG - Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
WMS - Workload Management System
WN - Worker node
WG - Working Group
WP - Work Package
WrfD - Workflow-relevant data
WS (1) - Web Service
WS (2) - Working Storage
WSDL - Web Service Description Language
WSDM - Web Services Distributed Management
WS-GRAM - Web Service-Grid Resource Access and Management
WS-I - Web Service Interoperability
WSFL - Web Services Flow Language
WSIF - Web Service Invocation Framework
WSIL - Web Service Inspection Language
WSRF - Web Service Resource Framework
Back to top XACML - eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
XDR - External Data Representation
XGE - Xen Grid Engine
XIO - eXtensible Input/Output
XLL - XML Linking Language
XML - Extensible Markup Language
XPDL - XML Process Definition Language
XSD - XML Schema Definition
XSL - Extensible Style Language
XSLT - XSL Transformations
Back to top YAIM - YAIM Ain't an Installation Manager
YaST - Yet another Setup Tool
YP - Yellow Pages
YUM - Yellowdog Updater Modified
Back to top ZODB - Zope Object Database
ZOPE - Z Object Publishing Environment
ZPT - Zope Page Templates
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