GCG:Glossary Draft

Status: Draft, Review and Approved

Term	Abbr.	Current Definition	Proposed New Definition	Notes	Status	From
Acceptable Use Policy	AUP	A policy describing the terms and conditions applicable to use of the Grid.			Draft	SPG
Accounting Data Centre	ADC	An entity that stores both local and non-local accounting data			Draft	SPG
Accounting record		An individual entry in an accounting database relating to one Grid job			Draft	SPG
Anonymous web user		A Web User who does not provide unique credentials to the Portal when invoking functionality			Draft	SPG
Application Community		A community of users connected by a shared discipline or project			Draft	SPG
Classic CA		A Certification Authority accredited by the IGTF according to the "Classic" Authentication Profile (URL)			Draft	SPG
Data Privacy		The privacy aspects of any data relating to personal information			Draft	SPG
Distinguished Name	DN	The name of the subject to which a public key is bound in a certificate			Draft	SPG
Grid		Any project or operational infrastructure which uses grid technologies and decides to adopt a policy to which this glossary pertains			Draft	SPG
Grid AUP		The AUP applying to all Grid users, not to be confused with the VO AUP			Draft	SPG
Grid Deployment Team		An entity responsible for Grid operations			Draft	SPG
Grid resource information system		A service containing information about Grid resources			Draft	SPG
Grid Security Officer		A named individual responsible for operational security of the Grid			Draft	SPG
Grid Security Operations		The team providing the operational security capability for the Grid			Draft	SPG
Identified web user		A Web User that provides authenticated personal identification to the Portal when invoking functionality, but whose credentials and way of authentication are not necessarily compatible or equivalent with Grid authentication.			Draft	SPG
Incident response		The process of responding to a security incident			Draft	SPG
International Grid Trust Federation	IGTF	The organisation responsible for the coordination of the Grid trust fabric (URL).			Draft	SPG
MICS CA		A Certification Authority accredited by the IGTF according to the Member Integrated Credential Services Authentication Profile (URL)			Draft	SPG
Multi User Pilot Job	MUPJ	A pilot job which pulls down workload belonging to a different user than the owner of the pilot job			Draft	SPG
Pilot Job		A place-holder Grid job which pulls down the real workload at execution time			Draft	SPG
Portal		A web site or web-based service that provides functionality to Web Users via web-specific applications			Draft	SPG
Pseudonymous web user		A verifiably-human Web User that provides authenticated non-identifying information to the Portal when invoking functionality.			Draft	SPG
Registrar		An individual responsible for collecting and maintaining information about a person registering as a Grid user			Draft	SPG
Resource		The equipment and software required to run a service on the Grid, and any data held on the service			Draft	SPG
Resource Administrator		The person responsible for installing, operating, maintaining and supporting one or more resource(s) at a site			Draft	SPG
Robot		A software agent that performs automatic functions			Draft	SPG
Security Incident		The actual or suspected violation of an explicit or implied security policy			Draft	SPG
Service		Any computing or software system, based on grid technologies, which provides access to, information about or controls resources			Draft	SPG
Site		An entity having administrative control of resources provided to the Grid. This may be at one physical location or spread across multiple physical locations			Draft	SPG
Site Manager		An individual responsible for Grid operations at a Site			Draft	SPG
SLCS CA		A Certification Authority accredited by the IGTF according to the Short Lived Credential Services Authentication Profile (URL)			Draft	SPG
Strongly identified web user		A Grid User that provides authenticated identification to the Portal when invoking functionality, that allows the portal to authenticate to the Grid Resources with valid Grid credentials specific to the Grid User.			Draft	SPG
User		An individual who has been given authority to access and use Grid resources			Draft	SPG
Virtual Organisation		A grouping of users and optionally resources, often not bound to a single institution, who, by reason of their common membership and in sharing a common goal, are given authority to use a set of resources			Draft	SPG
VO AUP		The policy document describing the goals of the VO thereby defining the expected and acceptable use of the Grid by the users of the VO			Draft	SPG
VO Manager		An individual responsible for the membership registry of the VO including its accuracy and integrity.			Draft	SPG
VO Membership Service		The operational interface to the VO membership registry			Draft	SPG
VO Resource Manager		A named individual within a VO with authority to inspect resource usage at the individual VO user level			Draft	SPG
Web user		A human individual that accesses Grid resources through a Portal			Draft	SPG
(UMD) Capability		A Capability is scoped around well known and well-defined activities that are sufficiently disparate, independent, and fulfill a discrete task in a higher-level orchestrated sequence of actions taken by the user (manually or automated) in order to reach the aspired goal. Capabilities may depend on the presence of another Capability. Appliances, however, SHOULD NOT depend on each other to avoid technical dependencies and vendor lock-in.			Draft	TCB
Appliance		An Appliance is the technical implementation of a Capability. An Appliance may be delivered in a single, monolithic Package, or it may be delivered as a set of components that are grouped into a set of Packages. In the latter case all packages must be installed to provide the complete Appliance.			Draft	TCB
Package		A Package is a structured software unit suitable for automated installation on a computer. A Package may specify dependencies on other packages, so that either a specific version of that package, or a minimum version of that package may satisfy that dependency.			Draft	TCB
Product		A Product is a solution delivered by Technology Providers to EGI and provides the functionality for one, sometimes more Capabilities as one single, undividable unit. Consequently, a Product may comprise of one or more Appliances.			Draft	TCB
Primary Package		A Product consists of a well-defined set of specific packages, each in a specific version. Different versions (whether major, minor, or revision) of the same Product may share a subset of packages of the same version, that do not change between the compared versions.			Draft	TCB
Secondary Package		A Secondary Package is a Package that is resolved from dependency declarations within a Package, that sources either from the Technology Provider's own Repository, or from any additional repository except OS distribution repositories. (Note: EPEL is an example of such a repository that is not an OS repository.)			Draft	TCB
Resource Centre	TBD	The Resource Centre is the smallest resource administration domain in EGI. It can be either localized or geographically distributed. A Resource Centre is also known as a “site”. It provides local resources and the Grid functional capabilities necessary to make those resources accessible to authorized users such as Security, Information, Storage, Data Access, Compute etc. Access is granted by exposing common interfaces to users.		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
Resource Centre Operations Manager	TBD	The Resource Centre Operations Manager leads the local grid operations, and is the official technical contact person in the connected organisation. He/she is locally supported by a team of Resource Centre administrators. The Resource Centre Operations Managers is responsible of enforcing the Resource Centre Operational Level Agreement – OLA, the EGI policies and procedures by the Resource Centre.		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
Resource Infrastructure	TBD	A Resource Infrastructure is a federation of Resource Centres.		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
Resource Infrastructure Provider	TBD	The Resource Infrastructure Provider is the legal organisation that is responsible of establishing, managing and of operating directly or indirectly the operational services to an agreed level of quality needed by the Resource Centres and the user community. It holds the responsibility of integrating them in EGI to enable uniform resource access and sharing for the benefit of their consuming end-users. The Resource Infrastructure Provider liaises locally with the Resource Centre Operations Managers, and represents the Resource Centres at an international level. Examples of Resource Infrastructure Provider are the European Intergovernmental Research Institutes and the National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs).		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
Operations Centre	TBD	Operations Centre is responsible of delivering local' operational services to a Resource Infrastructure Provider. In order to contribute resources to EGI a Resource Infrastructure Provider must be associated to an Operations Centre.		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
Resource Infrastructure Operations Manager	TBD	The Resource Infrastructure Provider is responsible for appointing an Operations Manager who represents the respective Resource Infrastructure within the OMB.		Term is part of the Operations Architecture.	Draft	OMB
National Grid Infrastructure	NGI	National Grid Infrastructures are legal organizations that (a) have a mandate to represent their national Grid community in all matters falling within the scope of EGI.eu, and (b) are the only organization having the mandate described in (a) for its country and thus provide a single contact point at the national level.			Draft
European Intergovernmental Research Organisation	EIRO	European Intergovernmental scientific Research Organisation that have extensive expertise in the areas of basic research and the management of large, international infrastructures, facilities and research programmes.			Draft
Product on a specific Platfrom and Architecture	PPA	A PPA describes a specific Product on a specific Platfrom and Architecture. The representation is an XML document defining the Product, Platform and Architechture pertinent to the PPA, as well as either a Metapackage or a complete list of packages that comprise this PPA.			Draft	EGI-InSPIRE SA2
Metapackage	PPA	A technical document in binary form following the rules of the target software packaging framework (such as RPM or APT packages) that does not install any software by itself, but exists for the sole purpose of defining the set of packages that the respective PPA consists of.			Draft	EGI-InSPIRE SA2
Policy		Clear, formal and mandatory statement and position of general nature adopted by the EGI.eu governance bodies for issues relevant to the EGI community.			Draft	PDT
Procedure		Step by step written and approved specification of how to complete a specific task or process.			Draft	PDT