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A

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AAA
Authentication Authorization Accounting

ACL
Access Control List

AES
Advanced Encryption Standard

AFC - Context: EGEE
Administrative Federation Committee

ALICE - Context: CERN
LHC physics experiment

AliEn - Context: CERN
Grid for Alice experiment

AM - Context: CERN
Activity Manager

AMD
Advanced Micro Devices

AMGA
ARDA Metadata Catalogue Project

APEL - Context: EGEE
EGEE/LCG Accounting Application

API
Application Programming Interface

ARC
Advanced Resource Connector

ARDA - Context: CERN
Architectural Roadmap Toward Distributed Analysis

ATLAS - Context: CERN
LHC physics experiment

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASGC
Academia Sinica Grid Computing

AUP
Acceptable usage policies

AWG - Context: EGEE
Application Working Group

B

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BaBar
B and B-bar experiment

BalticGrid
Baltic Grid Infrastructure

BAR
Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation

BCU
Biocomputing Unit

BDII
Berkeley Database Information Index

BELIEF - Context: Related Projects
Bringing Europe's Electronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers

BES
Basic Execution Service

BI
Bio Informatics

BioMed - Context: EGEE
Bio Medical VO

BLAH
Batch Local ASCII Helper

BMI
Bio Medical Informatics

C

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 | Z

CA
Certification Authority

CB - Context: EGEE
Collaboration Board

CC - Context:EGEE
Cost Claims

CDF
Collider Detector Experiment at Fermilab

CE
Compute Element

CEMON
Computing Element Monitor

CERN - Context: CERN
European Organisation for Nuclear Research

CGI
Common Gateway Interface

CHEP - Context: CERN
Computing in High Energy Physics

CIC - Context: EGEE
Core Infrastructure Centrer

CIS - Context: EGEE
Core Infrastructure Services

CM - Context: EGEE
Cluster Manager

CMMi
Capability Maturity Model Integration

CMS - Context: CERN
LHC physics experiment

CNAF
Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca e Sviluppo nelle Tecnologie Informatiche e Telematiche

Compass - Context: CERN
Physics experiment at CERN

Condor
Distributed computing solution

CREAM
Computing Resource Execution and Mangement

CRL
Certificate Revocation List

CT - Context: EGEE
Certification and Testing Team

CVS
Concurrent Versions System

CyGRID
Cyprus Grid

D

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D0
DØ Experiment

DAG
Direct Acyclic Graph (work-flow software from CONDOR project)

DAIS
Data Access and Integration Services

DCS
Dynamic connectivity Service

DEISA - Context: Related Projects
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Aplications

DGAS
Distributed Grid Accounting System

DIANE
Distributed Analysis Environment. A low-latency user scheduling system developed at CERN

DICOM
Digital Imaging and Computing in Medicine

DIFFSERV
Differentiated services

DLI
Data Location Interface

DN
Distinguished Name

DoS
Denial of Service

DOW
Description of work

DPM
Disk Pool Manager

DPNS
Disk Pool Name Server

DRMAA
Distributed Resource Management Application API

Dteam - Context: EGEE
Deployment team

E

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e-IRGSP - Context: Related Projects
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Project

EAC - Context: EGEE
External Advisory Committee

EC
European Commission

EDG
European DataGrid

EDMS - Context: CERN
Engineering Data Management Service (Cern Document Management tool)

EELA - Context: Related Projects
Extending EGEE to Latin America

EGAAP - Context: EGEE
EGEE Generic Application Advisory Panel

EGEE
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

EGI - Context: EGEE
European Grid Initiative

eIRG
e-Infrastructure Reflection group

EIS
Experiment Integration Structure

EL
Enterprise Linux

EM64T
Extended memory 64 technology

EMBnet
European Molecular Biology network

EMT - Context: EGEE
Engineering Management Team

ENOC
EGEE Network Operation Centre

EO
Earth observation

ERA
European Research Area

ESC - Context: EGEE
EGEE Support Committee

ESFRI
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

ESR
Earth Science research

ESUS
Experiment Specific User Support

ETICS - Context: Related Projects
eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software

EU
European Union

EUGridPMA
European Grid Authentication policy management authority for e-science

F

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FAQ
Frequently asked questions

FCR
Freedom of Choice tool

FiReMan
File Replica Manager

FQAN
Fully Qualified Attribute Name

FR - Context: EGEE
Federation representative

FTE - Context: EGEE
Full Time Equivalent

FTS
File Transfer Service

G

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GACL
Grid Access Control List

GAE
HEP software

GAG - Context: EGEE
Grid Application Group

GANGA
Gaudi/Athena aNd Grid Alliance

GAP - Context: EGEE
Gender Action Plan

GD - Context: EGEE
Grid Deployment

GE
Gigabit-Ethernet

GEANT
European Academic Network

GENIUS
Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission

GFAL
Grid File Access Library

GGF
Global Grid Forum

GGUS - Context: EGEE
Global Grid User Support

GigE
Gigabit Ethernet

GIIS
Grid Information Index Server

GILDA - Context: EGEE
Grid INFN Laboratory for dissemination activities

GIN
Grid Interoperability Now

GIP
Generic Information Provider

gJAF
g-Java Authorization Framework

GLEXEC
gLite EXEC

gLite - Context: EGEE
Codename of the middleware software suite developed by JRA1

GLUE
Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment

GN2
Codename for GEANT-2 (the successor to the GEANT network)

GOC - Context: EGEE
Grid Operation Center

GOCDB - Context: EGEE
Grid Operations Centre Database

GOoD - Context: EGEE
Grid Operator on Duty

G-PBOX
Grid Policy Box

GridICE
Grid monitoring software

GridKA
Grid based on Karlsruhe in Germany

GUID
Grid User Identifier

Gstat
Grid Statistics monitoring tool

GSC - Context: EGEE
Grid Support Center

GSI
Grid Security Infrastructure

GSOAP
C/C++ implementation for SOAP

GST
Grid Services Testing

GSVG
Grid Security Vulnerability Group

GT
Globus Toolkit

GUI
Graphical User Interface

GUID
Globally Unique IDentifier

GUT
Grid Unit Testing

H

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HEP
High Energy Physics

HepCAL
HEP Application Grid requirements

HLR
Home Location Register (DGAS component)

HTTPG
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over GSI

HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I

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I3
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative

IA64
Instruction Architecture-64

IAG
Israeli Academy Grid

Ibergrid
Iberian Grid Infrastructure

ICE
Interface to Cream Environment

IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (standardisation)

IF - Context: EGEE
Industry Forum

IGTF
International Grid Trust Federation

INFNGrid
Italian Grid Infrastructure

INFSOM
European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate

IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6

ISC
International Supercomputer Conference

iSGTW
International Science Grid This Week

ISM
Information SuperMarket (internal WMS component)

ISO 9001
International Organization for Standardization: Quality assurance normalization

ISSeG - Context: Related Projects
Integrated Site Security for Grids

IST
Information Society Technologies

ITF - Context: EGEE
Industry Task Force

ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library

ITU
International Telecommunication Union

J

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J2EE
Java 2 Platform, Entreprise Edition

JDL
Job Description Language

JP
Job Provenance

JPIS
Job Provenance Index Server

JPPS
Job Provenance Primary Storage

JR
Job Repository

JRA - Context: EGEE
Joint Research Activity

JSDL
Job Submission Description Language

JSPG - Context: EGEE
Joint security policy group

K

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KCA
Kerberized Certificate Authority

Know ARC
Grid-enabled Know-how sharing Technology Based on Arc Services and Open standards

L

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L&B
Logging and Bookkeeping software

LAN
Local Area Network

LCAS
Local Centre Authorization Service

LCG-0/1/2 - Category: CERN
LHC Computing Grid Middleware 0/1/2

LCG - Context: CERN
LHC Computing Grid

LCMAPS
Local Credential Maping Service

LDIF
Lightweight Data Interchange Format

LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LFC - Context: CERN
LCG File Catalog

LFN
Logical File Name

LHC - Context: CERN
Large Hadron Collider

LHCb - Context: CERN
LHC physics experiment, CERN

LRC - Context: CERN
LCG Resource Catalog

M

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MDS
Monitoring and Discovery System

MoU
Memorandum of Understanding

MPI
Message Passing Interface software

MSS
Mass Storage System

MW
Middleware

MWSG - Context: EGEE
Middleware Security Group

MyProxy
MyProxy service: This service provides a credential repository so that users can be authenticated

My SQL
Open source relational database implementation

N

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NA
Networking Activity

NDGF
Nordic Data Grid Facility

NEG
Northern European Grid

NESSI - Context: Related Projects
Networked European Software & Services Initiative

NGI
National Grid Initiative

NMI
NSF Middleware Initiative (National Science Foundation)

NM-WG
GGF Network Measurements Working Group schemas

NOC
Network Operation Center

Nordugrid
Grid research collaboration

NPM
Network Performance Monitoring

NREN
National Research and Education Network

NSS
Name Server Switch

O

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OAG - Context: EGEE
Operation Advisory Group (JRA2)

OASIS
Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OCC - Context: EGEE
Operations Coordination Centre

ODBC
Open DataBase Connectivity

OGF
Open Grid Forum

OGSA
Open Grid Services Architecture

OGSI
Open Grid Services Infrastructure

OMC - Context: EGEE
Operation Management Center

OMII
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute

Oracle
Data base management system

OSCT
Operational Security Coordination Team

OSG
Open Science Grid

OSI
Open Source Initiative

P

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PAM
Plugable Autentication Module

PAP
Policy Authority Point

PBS
Product breakdown structure

PD - Context: EGEE
Project Director

PDP
Policy Decision Point

PDG
Protein Design Group

PEB - Context: EGEE
Project Execution Board

PIP
Policy Information Point

PKI
Public Key Infrastructure

PM - Context: EGEE
x Person Month / Project Month x

PMA
Policy Management Authority

PMB - Context: EGEE
Project Management Board

PO - Context: EGEE
Project Office

POOL
HEP software

PPS - Context: EGEE
Pre-Production Service

PPT - Context: EGEE
Project Progress Tracking tool

PR - Context: EGEE
EU Periodic Reports

PR
Public Relations

PROOF
HEP software

PS
Production Service Environment

Q

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QA
Quality Assurance

QAG - Context: EGEE
Quality Assurance Group

QAM - Context: EGEE
Quality Assurance Management

QAR - Context: EGEE
Quality Assurance Representative

QI
Quality Indicator

QoS
Quality of Services

QR - Context: EGEE
EU Quarterly Report

QUATTOR
Optimisation Toolkit for Optimising Resources

R

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RA
Registration Authority

R-GMA
Relational-Grid Monitoring Architecture

RAID
Redundant array of inexpensive disks

RB
Resource Broker

RBAC
Rules Based Access Control

RC - Context: EGEE
Resource Center

RDIG
Russian Data Intensive Grid

Remedy
Problem tracking software for helpdesks

ReSS
(OSG Project)

RFIO
Remote File Input Output

R-GMA
Relational-Grid Monitoring Architecture

RH
Red Hat

RLS
Replica Location Service

RM
Release Manager

ROC - Context: EGEE
Regional Operation Center

RoGRID
Romanian GRID

RPM
RPM package Manager

RSS
Really Simple Syndication

RTAG
Requirements Technical Assessment Group

S

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SA - Context: EGEE
Specific Service Activity

SC
Supercomputing

SCG - Context: EGEE
Security Coordination Group

SCM
Software Configuration Management

SD
Service Discovery

SDJ
Short Deadline Job

SE
Storage Element

SEAL
HEP software

SEEGRID - Context: Related Projects
South East Grid e-Infrastructure Development

SEEREN
South East European Research Networking

SFT
Site Functional Test

SGM
Security Group Member

SIMBA - Context: CERN
CERN Mailing list management tool

SIPS
Site Integrated Proxy Services

SL
Scientific Linux

SLA
Service Level Agreement

SLCS
Shibboleth-based short-lived credential service

SLOC
Software Lines Of Code (number of)

SLR
Service Level Request

SLS
Service Level Specification

SM
Software manager

SME
Small and medium entreprises

SOA
Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol

SPI - Context: CERN
CERN Software Process Infrastructure

SQL
Structured Query Language

SRB
Storage Resource Broker

SRM
Storage Resource Manager

SSA
Special Support Action

SSC
Security Service Challenge

SU
Support unit

SURL
Storage Uniform Resource Location

SuSE
Linux distribution

SW
Software

SweGrid
Swedish national Grid resource for science and research

SWIMED
Sustainable Water management In Mediterranean coastal aquifers

T

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 | Z

TA - Context: EGEE
Technical Annex (Description of work)

TAB
Technical Advisory Board

TCG - Context: EGEE
Technical Coordination Group

TD - Context: EGEE
Technical Director

TNLC - Context: EGEE
Technical Network Liaison Committee

TPM
Ticket Processing Management

TT
Trouble Ticket

TURL
Transfer Uniform Resource Locator

TWGrid
Taiwan Grid

U

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 | Z

UF - Context: EGEE
User Forum

UIG - Context: EGEE
User Information Group

ULM
Universal Logger Message

UML
Unified Modelling Language

V

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VV
Verification and Validation activity

VDT
Virtual Data Toolkit

VO - Context: EGEE
Virtual Organisation

VOMRS
Virtual Organisation Management Registration Service

VOMS - Context: EGEE
VO Management Service

VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language

W

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WAN
Wide Area Network

WBS - Context: EGEE
Work breakdown structure

WCIT
World Congress on Information Technology

WISDOM - Context: EGEE
World Wide In Silico Docking on Malaria

WLM
WorkLoad Management software

WMS
Workload Management System

WN
Worker Node

WS
Web Server

WS-I
Web Service Interoperability

WSDL
Web Services Description Language

WSRF
Web Services Resource Framework

X

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XACML
eXtensible Access Control Markup Language

XML
eXtensible Markup Language

Y

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YAIM
Yet Another Installation Method

Z

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