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==B==
==B==
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*'''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==
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Revision as of 17:16, 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

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D

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E

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F

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G

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H

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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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P

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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