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*'''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 | |||
== I == | == I == |
Revision as of 19:02, 12 July 2016
Glossary of Terms | List of Acronyms : 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 |
A
- AA - Application Area
- AAI - 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
B
- 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
C
- 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
- CRC - Certified Resource Centre
- 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
D
- 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
E
- 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
- EGSO - European Grid of Solar Observations
- 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
- ERA - European Research Area
- 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
F
- 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
- FP7 - Framework Programme 7
- 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
G
- 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
- GridFTP - Grid File Transfer Protocol
- GridPP - Grid for UK Particle Physics
- 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
H
- 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
I
- 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
- iSGTW - International Science Grid This Week
- ISO
- 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
J
- 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
K
- KCA - Kerberized Certificate Authority
L
- 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
M
- 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
- MPI - Message Passing Interface
- MPLS - Multi-Protocol-Label Switching
- MVC - Model-View-Control
N
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Q
- QCG - QosCosGrid (Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing for complex systems in Grid Environments)
- QCOW - QEMU Copy-On-Write
R
- 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 infrastructure 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
S
- 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
- SDO - Standard Organisation Body
- 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
- SLM - Service Level Management
- SLOC - Source Lines Of Code
- SLP - Service Location Protocol
- SLT - Service Level Target
- 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
T
- 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
- TP - Techology Provider
- TPM - Ticket Process Manager
- TSI - Target System Interface
- TURL - Transport URL
- TVN - Thames Valley Network
- TWG - Training Working Group
U
- 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
V
- 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 Organisation
- 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
W
- 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
X
- 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
Y
- YAIM - YAIM Ain't an Installation Manager
- YaST - Yet another Setup Tool
- YP - Yellow Pages
- YUM - Yellowdog Updater Modified
Z
- ZODB - Zope Object Database
- ZOPE - Z Object Publishing Environment
- ZPT - Zope Page Templates