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| AA |
Application Area (LCG) |
| AAI |
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure |
| Abilene |
Advanced
Backbone Network in USA (not to be confused with
towns in Kansas or Texas) |
| ACF |
ATLAS Computing Facility |
| ACID |
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
(RDBMS) |
| 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 |
| AKT |
Advanced Knowledge Technologies |
| ALFA |
América Latina - Formación Académica |
| ALICE |
A Large Ion
Collider Experiment (LHC experiment) |
| AliEn |
ALICE Environment (Grid framework in gLight) |
| AMGA |
ARDA Metadata Catalogue Project |
| AMI |
Atlas Metadata Interface |
| AMS |
Advanced Multi-threaded Server (Objectivity) |
| AOD |
Analysis Object Data (LCG) |
| APAC |
Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing |
| APART |
Automatic Performance Analysis: Resources and Tools |
| APEL |
Accounting Processor for Event Logs |
| APGrid |
Asia Pacific Grid |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APROC |
Asia Pacific Regional Operation Centre |
| APT |
Advanced Package Tool (linux) |
| ARC |
Advanced Resource Connecter (Nordugrid) |
| ARDA |
A Realisation of Distributed Analysis for LHC |
| AS |
Autonomous System |
| ASN.1 |
Abstract Syntax Notation One, in ITU-T X.680 (X.500,
LDAP) |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider |
| ASTA |
Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications |
| ATF |
Architecture Task Force (EU Data Grid) |
| ATLAS |
A Toroidal
LHC ApparatuS (LHC experiment) |
| AUP |
Acceptable Use Policy |
| AVO |
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory |
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| B2B |
Business to Business |
| BAR |
Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation (EGEE) |
| BDII |
Berkeley Database Information Index |
| BEinGRID |
Business Experiments in GRID |
| BER |
Basic Encoding Rules, in ASN.1 (X.500, LDAP) |
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
| BIRN |
Biomedical Informatics Research Network |
| BOINC |
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing |
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| CA |
Certificate Authority |
| CACR |
Center for Advanced Computing Research |
| CAOPS |
Certification Authorities OPerationS (GGF) |
| CAS |
Community Authorization Service |
| CCA |
Common Component Architecture (US DOE) |
| CDB |
Configuration DataBase |
| CDDLM |
Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management |
| CE |
Computing Element: a Grid-enabled computing
resource |
| CEDAR |
Combined e-Science Data Analysis Resource for high-energy physics |
| CER |
Canonical Encoding Rules |
| CERN |
European
Organisation for Nuclear Research |
| CERT |
Computer Emergency Response Team [Now called CSIRT] |
| CERT/CC |
CERT Coordination
Center |
| CIC |
Core Infrastructure Center |
| CIFS |
Common Internet File System |
| CLI |
Command Line Interface |
| CMS |
Compact Muon
Solenoid (LHC experiment) |
| CMT |
Configuration Management Tool |
| CoAKTinG |
Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the
Grid |
| CoG |
Commodity Grid toolkit |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request
Broker Architecture |
| CORDIS |
Community Research & Development Information Service |
| CP |
Certificate Policy |
| CPS |
Certificate Practices Statement |
| CRL |
Certificate Revocation List |
| CrossGrid |
European Commission Grid R&D program |
| CRRB |
Computing Resources Review Board (LCG) |
| CS |
Computer Science |
| CSAR |
Computer Services for Academic Research (UK) |
| CSF |
Central Simulation Facility |
| CSIRT |
Computer Security
Incident Response Team |
| CVE |
Collaborative Virtual Environment |
| CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
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| DAG |
Directed Acyclic Graph |
| DAI |
Data Access and Integration (OGSA) |
| DAMIEN |
Distributed Application and Middleware for Industrial use of European Networks |
| DANTE |
Delivery of
Advanced Network Technology to Europe, Ltd. |
| DAS |
Dynamic Accounts Service |
| DataGRID |
EU scientific Grid project |
| DataTAG |
TransAtlantic Grid R&D project |
| dCache |
(disk pool management system) |
| DCC |
Digital Curation Centre |
| 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, in ITU-T X.690 |
| DFDL |
Data Format Description Language (GGF WG) |
| DFN |
Deutsches
ForschungsNetz |
| DFS |
Distributed File System |
| DGAS |
Distributed Grid Accounting System |
| DGI |
D-Grid Integration project |
| DGMS |
Data Grid Management System (middleware) |
| DGRA |
Data Grid Reference Architecture (Foster, Kesselman,
Tueke) |
| D-Grid |
Deutsche Grid-Initiative |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DIANE |
DIstributed ANalysis Environment |
| DIB |
Directory Information Base (X.500, LDAP) |
| DIRAC |
Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control (LHCb) |
| DIT |
Directory Information Tree (X.500, LDAP) |
| DMTF |
Distributed Management Task Force |
| DN |
Distinguished Name (X.500, LDAP) |
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| CN |
Common Name |
| L |
Locality |
| ST |
State or province |
| O |
Organization |
| OU |
Organization Unit |
| C |
Country |
| STREET |
Street |
| DC |
Domain Component |
| UID |
User ID |
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| DNS |
Domain Name Service |
| DPM |
Disk Pool Manager |
| DPSS |
Distributed Parallel Storage System |
| DQP |
Distributed Query Processor (OGSA) |
| DRO |
Data Replication Option (Objectivity) |
| DRS |
Data Replication Service (Globus) |
| DSA |
Directory Server (X.500, LDAP) |
| DSE |
DSA-Specific Entry (X.500, LDAP) |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition (XML) |
| DTEAM |
Deployment TEAM (VO) |
| DTF |
Distributed Terascale Facility (NSF) |
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| EDG |
EU
DataGrid |
| EDIKT |
e-Science Data, Information and Knowledge Transformation |
| EGA |
Enterprise Grid Alliance |
| EGEE |
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE |
| EGrid |
European Grid Forum (now part of GGF) |
| EGSO |
European Grid of Solar Observations |
| EIS |
Experiment Integration Support (LCG) |
| ELFMS |
Extremely Large Fabric management system |
| EMS |
Execution Management Service |
| ENACTS |
European Network for Advanced Computing Technology for Science |
| EPCC |
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre |
| EPR |
End Point Reference (Globus Toolkit) |
| ERPANET |
Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network |
| ESD |
Event Summary Data (LCG) |
| ESG |
Earth Systems Grid |
| eSI |
e-Science Institute |
| ESLEA |
Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for e-Science Applications |
| ES-LoA |
E-infrastructure Security: authentication Levels of Assurance |
| ESNET |
Energy Sciences Network |
| ESNW |
E-Science North
West |
| ETF |
Engineering Task Force (UK) |
| ETICS |
e-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software |
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| FBS |
Farm Batch System (FNAL) |
| FCR |
Freedom of Choice for Resources (VO policy enforcement tool) |
| FIPA |
Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents |
| FiReMan |
FIle and REplica MANager |
| FIRST |
Forum of Incident
Response and Security Teams |
| FP6 |
Framework Programme 6 (European Community) |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FTS |
File Transfer Service (EGEE) |
| FTREE |
Flexible TREE structured backend to LDAP |
| FZK |
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (EGEE) |
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| GAA |
Generic Authorization and Access |
| GAARDS |
Grid Authentication and Authorization with Reliably Distributed Services |
| GACL |
Grid ACL |
| GAG |
Grid Application Group (LCG) |
| GAMI |
Grid Application Monitoring Infrastructure |
| GANGA |
Gaudi / Athena and Grid Alliance |
| GARR |
Gruppo
per l'Armonizzazione delle Reti della Ricerca |
| GASS |
Globus
Access to Secondary Storage |
| GAUDI |
(LHCb Data Processing Applications Framework) |
| GCAS |
Globus Community Authorization Service |
| GCN |
Grid Computing Now |
| GDA |
Grid Deployment Area (LCG) |
| GDB |
Grid Deployment Board (LCG) |
| GDMP |
Grid Data Management Pilot. Also Grid Data
Mirroring Package |
| GDP |
Globus Documentation Project |
| GDTE |
Globus Development Tools for Eclipse |
| GÉANT |
Pan-European Gigabit Research and
Education Network |
| Geant4 |
A toolkit for
simulation of the passage of particles through
matter['Géant' = French 'Giant'] |
| GEM |
Globus Executable Management |
| GENIUS |
Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission |
| GEODE |
Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment |
| GFD |
Grid Final Document (GGF) |
| GFS |
Grid File System (GGF) |
| GFSG |
Grid Forum Steering Group |
| GGF |
Global Grid
Forum |
| GGUS |
Global Grid User Support |
| GIGGLE |
GIGascale Global Location Engine (EDG WP2) |
| GIIS |
Grid Information Index Server |
| GILDA |
Grid Infn Laboratory for Dissemination Activities |
| GIP |
Generic Information Provider |
| GIS |
Grid
Information Service |
| gLite |
(Lightweight middleware for Grid computing) |
| Globus |
The Globus
project: Grid R&D |
| GLUE |
Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment |
| GMA |
Grid Monitoring Architecture (GGF) |
| GNT |
Grid Network Team (UK e-Science) |
| GOC |
Grid Operation Centre (UK) |
| GOCDB |
Grid Operations Centre Database |
| GOG |
Global Operational Grid |
| GOS |
Grid Object Specification (GGF) |
| GOSC |
Grid Operations Support Centre |
| GPFS-WAN |
Global Parallel File System-Wide Area Network (TeraGrid) |
| GPI |
Ganga Public Interface |
| GPL |
General Public Licence (GNU) |
| GPT |
Grid Packaging Technology (Globus) |
| GRAAP |
Grid Resource Allocation and Agreement Protocol (GGF) |
| GRAM |
Grid Resource Access and Management protocol (Globus) |
| 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 |
| GridICE |
(Monitoring Service for Grid systems) |
| GridKa |
Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe |
| GRIDLAB |
EC simulation and visualisation Grid R&D |
| GridPP |
Grid for UK
Particle Physics |
| GRIDS |
Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support |
| GridShib |
Globus and Shibboleth integration |
| GridStart |
Cluster of European Grid projects |
| GRIF |
Grille Recherche en Ile de France |
| GRIP |
Grid Resource Information Protocol (Globus) |
| GRIP |
GRid Interoperability Project |
| GriPhyN |
Grid Physics
Network |
| GRIS |
Grid Resource Information Server (Globus) |
| GRM |
GRid application Monitor (WP3, P-GRADE) |
| GRNET |
Greek
Research and Technology Network |
| GRP |
Grid Resource Provider |
| GRRP |
Grid Resource Registration Protocol (Globus) |
| GRS |
General Resource Selector (Globus query tool, uses
GRUB) |
| GRSE |
Grid Resource Scheduling Environment (EU Datagrid) |
| GRUB |
(Globus API - to be replaced by DUROC) |
| GS |
Grid Scheduler, selects resources for a job |
| GSC |
UK Grid
Support Centre |
| GSH |
Grid Service Handle (OGSA) |
| GSI |
Grid Security Infrastructure |
| GSIFTP |
Grid Security Infrastructure File Transfer Protocol |
| GSM |
Grid Storage Management |
| GSP |
Grid Security Protocol (Globus) |
| GSR |
Grid Service Reference (OGSA) |
| GSS |
Generic Security Services (Globus) |
| GStat |
Grid Statistics |
| GT |
Globus Toolkit |
| GTA |
Grid Technology Area (LCG) |
| GTS |
Grid Trust Service |
| GTTF |
Grid Tools Task Force (ATLAS experiment) |
| GUID |
Global Unique IDentifier |
| GUMS |
Grid User Management System |
| GWD |
Grid Working Draft |
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| HBM |
HeartBeat Monitor (Globus, does not use MDS) |
| HDF5 |
Hierarchical
Data Format 5 |
| HECToR |
High End Computing Terascale Resource |
| HELEN |
High Energy Physics Latinamerican-European Network |
| HELLASGRID |
Greek National Grid |
| HENPIG |
High Energy and Nuclear Physics InterGrid
[Honest!] |
| HEPCAL |
HEP Common Application Layer |
| HICB |
HENP InterGrid Coordination Board |
| HIJTB |
HENP InterGrid Joint Technical Board |
| HLR |
Home Location Registers (DGAS) |
| HMS |
Hardware Management System |
| HOC-SA |
Higher-Order Components-Service Architecture |
| HPC |
High Performance Computing |
| HPC4U |
Highly Predictable Cluster for Internet Grids |
| HPCx |
High Performance Computing x |
| HPDC |
High Performance Distributed Computing |
| HPSS |
High Performance Storage System |
| HSM |
Hierarchical Storage Manager (?) |
| HTC |
High Throughput Computing |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS |
HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure sockets |
| HunGrid |
Hungarian Grid |
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| I2G |
Interactive European Grid (Ireland) |
| IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
| ICEAGE |
International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education |
| IDE |
Integrated Drive Electronics |
| IDE |
Integrated Development Environment |
| IDL |
Interface Description Language |
| IdP |
Identity Provider |
| IEPM-BW |
Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring - Bandwidth to the World |
| IETF |
Internet
Engineering Task Force |
| IGTF |
International Grid Trust Federation |
| ILM |
Information Lifecycle Management |
| IMS |
Information and Monitoring System, for data about
the Grid |
| IN2P3 |
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules |
| INFN |
Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (in Italy) |
| INFOD |
Information Dissemination (GGF WG) |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPG |
Information Power
Grid (NASA) |
| IPSec |
IP Security |
| IRC |
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration |
| ISSeG |
Integrated Site Security for Grids |
| iSGTW |
International Science Grid This Week |
| ISO |
International Standardization Organization |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| ITU-T |
International
Telecommunication Union - Telecom
standardization |
| IVDGL |
International
Virtual Data Grid Laboratory |
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| J2EE |
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| JANET |
UK Joint Academic
NETwork |
| JCL |
Job Control Language |
| JCSR |
JISC Committee for the Support of Research |
| JDBC |
Java DataBase Connectivity (RDBMS) |
| JDL |
Job Description Language |
| JISC |
Joint Information Systems Committee |
| JMS |
Java Messaging Service |
| JRA |
Joint Research Area (?) (try EGEE) |
| JRS |
JANET Roaming Service |
| JSDL |
Job Submission Description Language (GGF) |
| JSPG |
Joint Security Policy Group (LCG) |
| JSS |
Job Submission Service |
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| KCA |
Kerberized Certificate Authority |
| KnowARC |
Grid-enabled Know-how Sharing Technology Based on ARC Services and Open Standards |
| KSI2K |
Kilo SpecINT2000 benchmark units |
| KSIX |
Kasetsart System Interconnected eXecutive |
| KX.509 |
Kerberos X.509 |
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| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LB |
Logging and Bookeeping service |
| LCFG |
Large Scale Linux
Configuration |
| LCG |
LHC
Computing Grid |
| LCGP |
LHC
Computing Grid Project |
| LDAP |
Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol |
| LDBM |
(LDAP database backend) |
| LDIF |
LDAP Data Interchange Format |
| LDN |
Logical Dataset Name |
| LEAD |
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery |
| LEAF |
LHC-Era Automated Fabric |
| LEMON |
LHC Era Monitoring |
| LFC |
LCG File Catalog |
| LFN |
Logical File Name, mapped by RC onto >= one
PFN. |
| LHC |
Large Hadron
Collider |
| LHCb |
Large
Hadron Collider beauty (LHC experiment) |
| LHCf |
Large
Hadron Collider forward (LHC experiment) |
| LIGO |
Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory |
| LoA |
Levels of Assurance |
| LRC |
Local Replica Catalog (EDG WP2) |
| LRMA |
Local Resource Manager Adaptor |
| LRMS |
Local Resource Management System |
| LSF |
Load Sharing Facility |
| LUFS |
Linux Userland FileSystem |
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| MAC |
Media Access Control |
| MAC |
Message Authentication Code |
| MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
| MAP |
Monte Carlo Array Processor |
| MCS |
Metadata Catalog Service |
| MD5 |
Message
Digest 5 |
| MDS |
Meta Data Service |
| MDS |
Meta Directory Service, or Monitoring and Discovery Service (Globus) |
| MIAS |
Medical Image and Signal |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MINOS |
Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search |
| MML |
Mathematical Markup Language (XML) |
| MONARC |
Models Of Networked Analysis at Regional Centres (LCG) |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface (Globus) |
| MPICH-G2 |
(Grid enabled Message Passing Interface) |
| MPITH |
Message Passing Interface - Thin and High performance |
| MS |
Metadata Service |
| MSS |
Mass Storage System |
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| NA |
Networking Activity (try EGEE) |
| NAS |
NASA Advanced Supercomputing division |
| NCM |
Node Configuration Manager |
| NCSA |
National Center
for Supercomputing Applicatons (USA) |
| NDGF |
Nordic DataGrid Facility |
| NEES |
Network for
Earthquake Engineering Simulation |
| NeSC |
National e-Science
Centre (UK) |
| NESSI |
Networked European Software and Services Initiative |
| NextGRID |
Next Generation Grid |
| NFS |
Network File System |
| NG |
NorduGrid |
| NGG |
Next Generation Grid |
| NGI |
Next Generation Internet (many national initiatives) |
| NGOC |
National Grid Operations Centre (Singapore) |
| NGPP |
National Grid Pilot Platform (Singapore) |
| NGS |
National Grid Service (UK) |
| NIC |
Network Interface Card |
| NIS |
Network Information Service |
| NISCC |
National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (UK) |
| NMI |
NSF Middleware Initiative |
| Nordugrid |
Nordic Grid |
| NorthGrid |
(Northern UK Tier 2 group) |
| NPACI |
National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (USA) |
| NPM |
Network Performance Monitoring (EGEE) |
| NREN |
National Research and Education Network.
(Compendium of NRENs) |
| NREN |
NASA
Research and Education Network |
| NSF |
National Science
Foundation (USA) |
| NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
| NVO |
National Virtual Observatory (USA) |
| NWS |
Network Weather Service |
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| OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OCSP |
Online Certificate Status Protocol (X.509) |
| OGCE |
Open Grid Collaboration Environment |
| OGF |
Open Grid Forum (was GGF) |
| OGSA |
Open Grid
Services Architecture |
| OGSA-DAI |
OGSA Database Access and Integration |
| OGSADF |
Open Grid Services Architecture Development Framework |
| OGSI |
Open Grid Services Infrastructure |
| OID |
Object IDentifier |
| OGRO |
Open Grid Ocsp |
| OMC |
Operations Management Centre |
| OMG |
Object Management Group |
| OMII |
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute |
| OpenSCE |
Open Scalable Cluster Environment |
| OPN |
Optical Private Network (LCG) |
| OPS |
OPerationS VO (site monitoring) |
| OPTORSIM |
Replica OPTimiser Simulation (EU DataGrid) |
| OREP |
OGSA Replication Services (GGF WG) |
| OSCT |
Operational Security Coordination Team |
| OSG |
Open Science Grid |
| OWL |
Web Ontology Language |
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| P12 |
PKCS#12 (Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard) |
| PACMAN |
PACkage MANager (iVDGL) |
| PAM |
Pluggable Authentication Module |
| PanDA |
Production and Distributed Analysis (OSG) |
| PASTE |
Production and Analysis System Tools Environment (LHCb) |
| PBS |
Portable Batch System |
| PDU |
Protocol Data Unit (X.500, LDAP) |
| PEB |
Project Execution Board (LCG) |
| PEGASUS |
Particle Physics Engagment with the Grid, A Socio-technical Usability Study |
| PEM |
Privacy-Enhanced Mail |
| PER |
Packed Encoding Rules |
| PFN |
Physical File Name |
| PFX |
Personal inFormation eXchange (top-level exchange PDU defined in standard PKCS#12) |
| P-GRADE |
Parallel Grid Run-time and Application Development Environment |
| PhEDEx |
Physics Experiment Data Export (CMS) |
| PIPSS |
PPARC Industrial Programme Support Scheme |
| PKCS |
Public Key Cryptography Standard |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PM9 |
Project Month 9 [ = September 2001] (EU Data Grid) |
| PMA |
Policy Management Authority |
| PMB |
Project Management Board |
| POB |
Project Overview Board (LCG) |
| POL-34 |
Polish NREN |
| PoP |
Point of Presence |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface |
| PPD |
Particle Physics Department |
| PPDG |
Particle Physics Data
Grid |
| PPS |
Pre Production Services |
| PRAGMA |
Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly |
| PROVE |
(P-GRADE performance visualisation tool) |
| PSC |
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| PSE |
Problem Solving Environment: Workload management
systems + collaboration frameworks |
| PTB |
Project Technical Board (EU Data Grid) |
| PURSe |
Portal-based User Registration Service |
| PVDG |
Petascale Virtual Data Grid |
| PVM |
Parallel
Virtual Machine |
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| QCDGrid |
QCD Grid |
| QCDOC |
QCD On a Chip |
| QoS |
Quality of Service |
| Quattor |
(system administration toolsuite) |
| QWG |
Quattor Working Group |
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| RA |
Registration Authority |
| RACF |
RCF ATLAS Computing Facility |
| RADIUS |
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
| RAID |
Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks |
| RB |
Request (or Resource) Broker |
| RC |
Replica Catalog, maps a LFN to at least one PFN |
| RC |
Resource Centre |
| RCF |
RHIC Computing Facility |
| RDBMS |
Relation Database Management System |
| RDF |
Resource Description Framework (Semantic Web) |
| RDIG |
Russian Data Intensive Grid |
| RDN |
Relative Distinghished Name (X.500, LDAP) |
| RENATER |
Réseau
National de Télécommunications pour la
Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche |
| RFIO |
Remote File I/O |
| RFT |
Reliable Transfer Service (Globus) |
| RG |
Research Group (try GGF) |
| R-GMA |
Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (EGEE) |
| RHIC |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
| RHUL |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
| RLI |
Replica Location Index |
| RLS |
Replica Location Service |
| RLSS |
Replica Location and Selection Service |
| RM |
Replica Manager |
| RMS |
Real-time Monitoring System |
| RMS |
Resource Management System (local to a CE) |
| RNO |
Regional Network Operator |
| RNS |
Resource Namespace Services |
| ROC |
Regional Operations Centre |
| RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
| RPM |
Red Hat Package Manager (Linux) |
| RSL |
Resource Specification Language (Globus) |
| RSS |
Resource Selection Service |
| RTAG |
Requirements Technical Assessment Group (LCG) |
| RTML |
Robot Telescope Markup Language |
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| SA |
Support Activity (try EGEE) |
| SAM |
Sequential data Access via Meta-data (D0 experiment) |
| SAMD |
Seamless Access to Multiple Datasets |
| SAML |
Security Assertion Markup Language (Draft) |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network |
| SASL |
Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
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Service Challenge (LCG) |
| SC2 |
Software and Computing Committee (LCG) |
| SCE |
Scalable Cluster Environment |
| SCG |
Security Coordination Group |
| SciDAC |
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
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| SCMS |
Scalable Cluster Monitoring System |
| SCRAM |
Software Configuration, Release And Management |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface |
| SDK |
Software Development Kit |
| SDSC |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| SE |
Storage Element |
| SEE-GRID |
South-East European Grid |
| SEQUIN |
SErvice
QUality across Independently managed Networks |
| SFT |
Site Functional Tests |
| SGSD |
Software, Grid, Security and Dependability |
| SGTW |
Science Grid This Week |
| SGM |
Software Group Manager |
| SI2K |
SpecINT2000 benchmark unit |
| SJ5 |
SuperJANET5 |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLAPD |
Stand-alone LDAP Daemon |
| SLOC |
Source Lines of Code |
| SLP |
Service Location Protocol |
| SMP |
Symmetric Multi-Processing |
| SMS |
State Management System |
| SNAP |
Service Negotiation and Acquisition Protocol |
| SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNO |
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SoD |
Support on Duty |
| SOKU |
Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities |
| SP |
Service Provider |
| SPMA |
Software Package Management Agent |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language (RDBMS) |
| SQMS |
Simple Queuing Management System |
| SRB |
Storage Resource Broker |
| SRM |
Storage Resource
Management |
| SRP |
Secure Remote Passsword protocol |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSP |
Storage Service Provider |
| STREP |
Specific Targeted Research Project |
| SUPER |
Study of User Priorities for e-Infrastructure for Research |
| SURL |
Storage Unique Resource Locator |
| SVE |
Supercomputing, Visualization and e-Science |
| SWITCH |
Swiss Academic and
Research Network |
| SWRep |
Software Repositories |
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| TACAR |
TERENA Academic CA Repository |
| TACC |
Texas Advanced Computing Center |
| TAG |
TransAtlantic Grid |
| TB1 |
Test Bed 1 |
| TCG |
Trusted Computing Group |
| TCPA |
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance |
| TDR |
Technical Design Report (LCG) |
| TeraGrid |
US multi Teraflop Grid |
| TERENA |
Trans-European
Research and Education Networking Association |
| TFN |
Transport File Name: URL to a file on a SE |
| TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
| TMDB |
Transfer management database (CMS PhEDEx) |
| TOTEM |
Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC (LHC Experiment) |
| TPM |
Ticket Process Manager |
| TURL |
Transport URL |
| TVN |
Thames Valley Network |
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| UCAID |
University
Corporation for Advanced Internet Development |
| UC/ANL |
University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory |
| UCS |
Universal Character Set |
| UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UGP |
The UCLA Grid Portal Software |
| UI |
User Interface |
| UKERNA |
United Kingdom
Education & Research Networking Association |
| UKHEC |
UK High End Computing |
| UKI |
UK and Ireland region |
| UKQCD |
UK Quantum ChromoDynamics collaboration |
| ULM |
Universal Logger Message |
| UML |
Unified Modelling
Language |
| UR |
Usage Record (GGF Draft) |
| URD |
User Requirements Document |
| URI |
Universal Resource Identifier (X.500, LDAP) |
| URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier (WWW) |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
| UTF-8 |
UCS Transformation Formats 8 (X.500, LDAP) |
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| VAG |
Virtual Access Grid (VRVS) |
| vBNS |
very high performance
Backbone Network Service (USA) |
| VDL |
Virtual Data Language (GryPhyN) |
| VDS |
Virtual Data System (GryPhyN) |
| VDT |
Virtual Data Toolkit |
| VLDB |
Very Large Data Bases |
| VO |
Virtual Organization, e.g., an experiment |
| VOBOX |
VO box |
| VOCE |
Virtual Organization Central Europe (EGEE) |
| VOMRS |
Virtual Organization Management Registration Service |
| VOMS |
VO Management Service |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VWS |
Virtual Workspace Service |
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| W3C |
The World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WEEP |
Workflow Enactment Engine Project |
| WG |
Working Group (try GGF) |
| WLCG |
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid |
| WMS |
Workload Management System (WP1) |
| WN |
Worker Node |
| WP |
Work Package (e.g. for
EU Data Grid) |
| WS |
Web Service |
| WS |
Working Storage |
| WSDL |
Web Services Description Language |
| WSDM |
Web Services Distributed Management |
| WSFL |
Web Services Flow Language (IBM) |
| WS GRAM |
Web Service Grid Resource Access and Management protocol (Globus) |
| WS-I |
Web Services Interoperability |
| WSIF |
Web Service Invocation Framework |
| WSIL |
Web Services Inspection Language |
| WSRF |
Web Services Resource Framework |
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| X.509 |
(ITU-T standard for Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks) |
| XACL |
(Same as XACML) |
| XACML |
eXtensible Access Control Markup Language |
| XIO |
eXtensible Input/Output (Globus) |
| XLL |
Extensible Linking Language (XML) |
| XML |
Extensible Markup
Language |
| XSL |
Extensible
Style Language (XML) |
| XSLT |
XSL Transformations |
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| YAIM |
Yet Another Installation Manager(?) (LCG) |
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