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Glossary V1
EGI Glossary V1 (draft)
This page contains the latest version of EGI glossary terms (DRAFT PAGE).
Questions: Customer vs. User vs. End-user
| Term | Abbr. | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| IT Infrastructure | All of the hardware, software, networks, facilities, etc. that are required to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support IT Services. The term IT Infrastructure includes all of the information technology but not the associated people, Processes and documentation (source: ITIL V3) | |
|
e-Infrastructure |
An IT Infrastructure for instant access to data, remote instruments, "in silico" experimentation, as well as the setup of Virtual Research Communities. | |
| Service | Means of delivering value to Users by facilitating outcomes they want to achieve withouth the ownership of specific costs and risks (adapted from Customer definition in ITIL V3) | |
| IT Service | A Service provided to one or more Users by a Resource Centre or a Resource infrastructure Provider. An IT Service is based on the use of Information Technology and supports the User's Business Processses. An IT Service is made up from a combination of people, Processses and technology and should be defined in a Service Level Agreement. (adapted from ITIL V3) | |
| User | A person who uses the IT Service on day-to-day basis (source: ITIL V3) | |
| Resource Centre | RC | The Resource Centre – also known as Site – is the smallest resource administration domain in EGI. It can be either localised or geographically distributed. It provides a minimum set of local or remote UMD-compliant capabilities necessary to make resources accessible to users. Access is granted by exposing common interfaces to users. |
| Operations Centre | The Operations Centre offers operations services on behalf of the Resource Infrastructure Provider. The operations services are delivered locally in collaboration with the relevant Resource Centres and globally with EGI.eu. | |
| Resource Infrastructure | RI | A Resource Infrastructure is a federation of Resource Centres. |
| Resource Centre Operations Manager | The Resource Centre Operations Manager leads the Resource Centre operations, and is the official technical contact person in the connected organisation. He/she is locally supported by a team of Resource Centre administrators. | |
| Resource Centre Administrator | ||
| Certified Resource Centre | A Certified Resource Centre is a Resource Centre that conforms to the requirements specified in the "Resource Centre Registration and Certification Procedure" | |
| Resource infrastructure Provider | RP | The Resource Infrastructure Provider is the legal organisation responsible for any matter that concerns the respective Resource Infrastructure. It provides, manages and operates (directly or indirectly) all the operational services required to an agreed level of quality as required by the Resource Centres and their user community. It holds the responsibility of integrating these operational services into EGI in order to enable uniform resource access and sharing for the benefit of their users. The Resource Infrastructure Provider liaises locally with the Resource Centre Operations Managers, and represents the Resource Centres at an international level. Examples of a Resource Infrastructure Provider are the European Intergovernmental Research Institutes (EIRO) and the National Grid Initiatives (NGIs). |
| Virtual Research Community | VRC | A VRC is a group of large-scale scientific research collaborations, either covering multiple VOs or simply belong are part of a larger domain area. The VRC model allows a community to have bi-directional interactions through defined points of contact with EGI across broader domain areas. |
| Virtual Organisation | VO |
A Virtual Organisation (VO) is a grouping of users and (optionally) resources, often not bound to a single institution, which, by reason of their common membership and in sharing a common goal, are given authority to use a set of resources (from OMB). A Virtual Organisation (VO) is a group of people (e.g. scientists, application developers) with common interests and requirements, which need to work collaboratively with other members of their collaboration and/or share resources (e.g. data, software, expertise, CPU, storage space) regardless of geographical location. They join a VO in order to gain access to resources with a set of rules and policies that govern the access and security rights for the users, resources and data in question (from PDT) |
| Unified Middleware Distribution | UMD | |
| Capability (or IT Capability) | ||
| National Grid Initiative | NGI | |
| Procedure | ||
| Policy |