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Glossary |
Description |
| A |
AAA |
Authentication Authorization Accounting |
| ACL |
Access Control List |
| AFC |
Administrative Federation Committee |
| AFM |
Administrative Federation Meeting |
| AGM |
Architecture Group Member |
| ALICE |
LHC physic experiment |
| AliEn |
Grid for Alice experiment |
| AM |
Activity Manager |
| APEL |
EGEE/LCG Accounting Application |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| ARDA |
A
Realisation of Distributed Analysis for LHC.In response to the
recommendations of the report of the ARDA RTAG of November 2003, the
LCG Project Execution Board agreed on the goals and organisation of a
project to coordinate the activities to prototype distributed analysis
systems for the LHC experiments using a grid. |
| ApGrid |
ApGrid
is a partnership for Grid computing in the Asia Pacific region. ApGird
is an open community encouraging collaboration and it is not restricted
to just a few developed countries. As of the end of May 2004, 49
organizations from 14 countries were participating in ApGrid. |
| ATF |
Architecture Task Force (replaced by PTF) |
| ATLAS |
LHC physic experiment |
| ARCH |
Architecture
Area.The Architecture Area hosts working and research groups that aim
to define architectures for Grid computing. Architecture has been
described as bakery, receiving high quality ingredients (ideas and
strategies) from various sources, and in turn delivering a well baked
concept. The architectural process involves selecting those design
components that best fit together to create a balanced atheistic
solution that meets the goals for which the architecture is intended. |
| Alliance |
A collaboration of small application communities that develops systems and runs on the persistent grid infrastructure. |
| AWG |
Application Working Group |
| B |
BaBar |
B and B-bar experiment
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| BAR |
Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation |
| BCU |
Biocomputing Unit |
| BDII |
Berkeley Database Information Index |
| BI |
Bio Informatics |
| BioMed |
Bio Medical VO |
| BMI |
Bio Medical Informatics |
| BioGrid |
Biogrid
is conducting a trial for the introduction of the GRID approach in the
biotechnology industry. The project is focusing on the integration of
three existing technologies - agent technology, automatic model
classificiation technology and knowledge visualisation technology - and
the production of a working prototype biotechnology information GRID. |
| BLAST |
Basic
Local Alignment SearchTool [3] is a widely used search algorithm that
is used to compute alignments of nucleic acid or protein sequences with
the goal of finding the n closest matches in a target data set. BLAST
takes a heuristic (rule-of-thumb) approach to a computationally highly
intensive problem and is one of the fastest sequence comparison
algorithms available, yet it still requires significant computational
resources. It doestherefore benefit from being run in a grid computing
context. |
| BoilerMaker |
The
BoilerMaker system developed at Argonne National Laboratory allows
multiple users to collaborate on the design of emission control systems
in industrial incinerators. The different users interact with each
other and with a simulation of the incinerator. The simulation itself
can be updated more quickly using the grid technology. |
| C |
CA |
Certification Authority |
| CA |
Consortium Agreement |
| CB |
Collaboration Board |
| CC |
Cost Claims |
| CDF |
Collider Detector Experiment at Fermilab |
| CE |
Compute Element |
| CERN |
CERN
is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest
particle physics centre. Here physicists come to explore what matter is
made of and what forces hold it together. |
| CHEP |
Computing in High Energy Physics |
| CIC |
Core Infrastructure Centrer |
| CIS |
Core Infrastructure Services |
| CM |
Cluster Manager |
| CMMi |
Capability Maturity Model Integration |
| CMS |
LHC physic experiment |
| COD |
CIC-on-duty |
| Compass |
Physics experiment at CERN |
| CRL |
Certificat Revocation List |
| CT |
Certification and Testing Team |
| CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
| CyGRID |
Cyprus Grid |
| CIC |
Core
Infrastructure Centres.CIC have two fundamental roles: to operate
essential grid infrastructure services that are not required at each
Resource Centre; and to act as a Grid Operations Centre providing
monitoring and operational troubleshooting services. In addition they
play a crucial role as second-level support to the ROCs for operational
problems. |
| Cluster Computing |
Back
in the last century,scientist put some PCs together and got them to
communicate.This was the first cluster.Clusters can have different
sizes. One of the big advantages of this approach is "scalability": a
cluster can grow simply by adding new PCs to it. Of course there are
limits, because somehow the computers have to communicate with each
other, and this starts to get pretty hairy when there are many
computers. But clusters of hundreds of computers are not uncommon
nowadays. |
| Consumer Grids |
In
a Consumer Grid, resources are shared on a commercial basis, rather
than on the basis of goodwill or mutual self-interest. Companies or
other organizations rent distributed resources, and the owners of these
resources are paid for the computing power or data storage capacity
they contribute, by a "middleman" in charge of the middleware. |
| Condor |
Condor
is a Project to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and
policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large
collections of distributively owned computing resources. Guided by both
the technological and sociological challenges of such a computing
environment, the Condor Team has been building software tools that
enable scientists and engineers to increase their computing throughput. |
| D |
DataGrid |
DataGrid
is a project funded by European Union. The objective is to build the
next generation computing infrastructure providing intensive
computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds
of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific
communities.
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| DataTAG |
The
objective of DATATAG is to implement a network infrastructure for a
truly high-speed interconnection between individual GRID domains both
in Europe and the US.The project will incorporate the design and
implementation of advanced network services for guaranteed data
delivery, transport protocol optimisation, efficiency and reliability
of network resource utilisation, user-perceived application performance
and middleware interoperability across different domains. |
| D-CH |
German-Swiss Federation |
| D0 |
DØ Experiment |
| DAGS |
Directed Acyclic GraphS (work-flow software from CONDOR project) |
| DAIS |
Data Access and Integration Services |
| DCS |
Dynamic connectivity Service |
| DEISA |
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Aplications |
| diffserv |
differentiated services |
| DN |
Distinguished Name |
| DoS |
Denial of Service |
| DPM |
Disk Pool Manager |
| Dteam |
Deployment team |
| Digital Archives |
To
migrate an application for heterogeneous metadata management into a
Grid service, DOREGrid has gained its early success in demostrating the
feasibility of managing digital archives among virtual organizations.
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| DOREGrid |
DORE(DOcument
REtrieval) is a middleware,library and tool,for programmers to develop
metadata database application.To integrate different Metadata query
system, we start a new project based on GT3 and
try to constrcut a appropriate framework to perform it. We have achieved integrating
existing DORE application and we still work on building new framework. |
| Distributed Computing |
Whenever
there is a problem due to lack of computing power (a complicated
calculation or an applications that require more computing power than a
single computer can provide) the solution is to link computer resources
from across a business, a company or an academic institution. The
network of computer is then used as a single, unified resource. |
| DRM |
Disk
Resource Manager (DRM) is what we typically call an SRM implementation
on top of a disk system. A DRM is a component that controls the use of
a shared disk cache in a data grid. |
| E |
e-IRGSP |
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Project |
| EAC |
External Advisory Committee |
| EC |
European Commission |
| EDG |
European DataGrid |
| EDMS |
Engineering Data Management Service (Cern Document Management tool) |
| EELA |
Extending EGEE to Latin America |
| EGAAP |
EGEE Generic Application Advisory Panel |
| EGEE |
Enabling
Grid for E-sciencE.The aim of EGEE project is to build on recnet
advances in grid technology and develop a grid service infrastructure
in European which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. |
| EGO |
European Grid Organisation |
| eIRG |
e-Infrastructure Reflection group |
| EIS |
Experiment Integration Structure |
| EL |
Enterprise Linux |
| EMBnet |
European Molecular Biology network |
| EMT |
Engineering Management Team |
| ENOC |
EGEE Network Operation Centre |
| EO |
Earth observation |
| ERA |
European Research Area |
| ESC |
EGEE Support Committee |
| ESR |
Earth Science research |
| ESUS |
Experiment Specific User Support |
| ETICS |
eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUGridPMA |
European Grid Authentication policy management authority for e-science |
| EuroGrid |
The
EUROGRID project is a shared cost Research and Technology Development
project (RTD) granted by the European Commission (grant no. IST
1999-20247). It is part of the Information Society Technologies
Programme (IST). The grant period is Nov 1, 2000 till Jan 31, 2004. The
EUROGRID project will demonstrate the use of GRIDs in selected
scientific and industrial communities, address the specific
requirements of these communities, and highlight the benefits of using
GRIDs. |
| F |
FAFNER |
Factoring
via Network-Enabled Recursion,which was a project which aimed at
factorizing very large numbers, a computationally intensive challenge
which is very relevant to digital security. Since this is a challenge
which can be broken into small parts, even fairly modest computers can
contribute useful power. |
| FAQ |
Frequently asked questions |
| FCR |
Freedom of Choice tool |
| FR |
Federation representative |
| FR |
French federation |
| FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
| FTS |
File Transfer System |
| Fabric |
With
respect to grid computing, "fabric" refers to a "layer" of grid
components (underneath applications, tools, and middleware). Fabric
encompasses local resource managers (e.g., operating systems, queuing
systems, device drivers, libraries, etc.), and networked resources
(e.g., compute and storage resources, data sources, etc.). Grid
applications use grid tools and middleware components to interact with
the fabric. |
| FZK |
Karlsruhe |
| G |
Grid computing |
Connecting
storage and data as well as CPUs from multiple systems into a centrally
managed but flexible computing environment. True grid provides
distributed resource management of heterogeneous systems. |
| GRID |
Whereas
the Web is a service for sharing information over the Internet, the
Grid is a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity
over the Internet. The Grid goes well beyond simple communication
between computers, and aims ultimately to turn the global network of
computers into one vast computational resource.
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| gLite |
gLite
(pronounced "gee-lite") is the next generation middleware for grid
computing. Born from the collaborative efforts of more than 80 people
in 11 different academic and industrial research centres as part of the
EGEE Project, gLite provides a bleeding-edge, best-of-breed framework
for building grid applications tapping into the power of distributed
computing and storage resources across the Internet.
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| Globus Toolkit |
The
open source Globus Toolkit is a fundamental enabling technology for the
"Grid," letting people share computing power, databases, and other
tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic
boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.The toolkit includes
software services and libraries for resource monitoring, discovery, and
management, plus security and file management. |
| GRAM |
Globus
Resource Allocation Manager, which figures out how to convert a request
for resources into commands that local computers can understand. |
| GSI |
Grid Security Infrastructure, which provides authentication of the user and works out that person's access rights. |
| GRIS |
Grid Resource Information Service, to query resources for their current configuration, capabilities, and status. |
| GIIS |
Grid Index Information Service, which coordinates arbitrary GRIS services. |
| GridFTP |
GridFTP provides a high-performance, secure and robust data transfer mechanism. |
| Goodwill Grids |
Goodwill Grids are for anyone owning a computer at home who wants to donate some computer capacity to a good cause. |
| GridPP |
GridPP
is a collaboration of particle physicists and computer scientists from
the UK and CERN, who are building a computing Grid for particle physics. |
| GGF |
The
Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of
individuals from industry and research leading the global
standardization effort for grid computing. GGF's primary objectives are
to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation
of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and
documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user
experiences, and implementation guidelines. |
| GridPort |
Grid
Portal Toolkit (GridPort) is a collection of technologies designed to
aid in the development of science portals on computational grids: user
portals, applications interfaces, and education portals. GridPort
leverages standard, portable technologies to provide information
services that portals can access and incorporate. |
| GOC |
Grid
Operations Center. It functions as a central repository for
configuration information regarding the network, storage and computing
resources at all the grid sites. It also serves as a central monitoring
point for operational activity at each site and among the sites. |
| H |
HEP |
High Energy Physics |
| HepCAL |
HEP Application Grid requirements |
| I |
I3 |
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative |
| IA64 |
Instruction Architecture-64 |
| IAG |
Israeli Academy Grid |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (standardisation) |
| IF |
Industry Forum |
| ISO 9001 |
International Organization for Standardization: Quality assurance normalization |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| IT |
Italian Federation |
| ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
| J |
JDL |
Job Description Language |
| JRA |
Joint Research Activity |
| JRA1 |
EGEE Middleware Re-engineering and Integration activity |
| JRA2 |
EGEE Quality Assurance activity |
| JRA3 |
EGEE Security activity |
| JRA4 |
EGEE Network Services development activity |
| JSPG |
Joint security policy group |
| K |
KA |
Karlsruhe |
| KCA |
Kerberized Certificate Authority |
| L |
L&B |
Logging and Bookkeeping software |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LCG-0/1/2 |
LHC Computing Grid Middleware 0/1/2 |
| LCG |
LHC Computing Grid |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LFC |
LCG File Catalog |
| LFN |
Logical File Name |
| LHC |
The
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at CERN near Geneva,
is the largest scientific instrument on the planet. When it begins
operations in 2007, it will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million
Gigabytes) of data annually, which thousands of scientists around the
world will access and analyse. |
| LHcb |
LHC physic experiment |
| LCG |
The
mission of the LHC Computing Project (LCG) is to build and maintain a
data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy
physics community that will use the LHC. |
| LRC |
LCG Resource Catalog |
| Legion |
Legion
was a project started at the University of Virginia in 1993, which took
a rather purist computer science approach to building a metacomputing
environment. It was based on an object oriented approach, where
everything (files, computers on the network etc.) is an object with
specific access procedures, and fits into one giant virtual machine. |
| M |
mpiBLAST |
mpiBLAST
is a freely available open source parallelization of NCBI BLAST.
mpiBLAST segments the BLAST database and distributes it across cluster
nodes, permitting BLAST queries to be processed on many nodes
simultaneously. mpiBLAST is based on MPI. The current release runs
under Linux and Windows, and will probably work on other varieties of
Unix as well. |
| MDS |
Monitoring
and Discovery Service, in order to collect information about
resource.Such as processing capacity, bandwidth capacity, type of
storage, etc. |
| MoU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface software |
| MSS |
Mass Storage System |
| MW |
Middleware |
| MyProxy |
MyProxy service: This service provides a credential repository so that users can be authenticated |
| Middleware |
Key
to success of Grid computing is the development of the 'middleware',
the software that organizes and integrates the disparate computational
facilities belonging to a Grid. Its main role is to automate all the
"machine to machine" (M2M) negotiations required to interlace the
computing and storage resources and the network into a single, seamless
computational "fabric". |
| Metadata |
A
key ingredient for the middleware is metadata. This is essentially
"data about data". Metadata plays a crucial role as they contain all
information about, for example, how, when and by whom a particular set
of data was collected, how the data is formatted, and where in the
world it is stored - sometimes at several locations. |
| Metacomputing |
Metacomputing
was a name coined for a particular type of distributed computing, very
popular in the early 'nineties, which involved linking up supercomputer
centers with what was, at the time, high speed networks. |
| N |
NA |
Networking Activity |
| NA1 |
EGEE Project Management activity |
| NA2 |
EGEE Dissemination and Outreach activity |
| NA3 |
EGEE User Training and Induction |
| NA4 |
EGEE application identification and support activity |
| NA5 |
EGEE International Cooperation activity |
| NE |
Northern Europe Federation |
| NEG |
Northern European Grid |
| NGIS |
National Grid Initiatives |
| NMI |
NSF Middleware Initiative (National Science Foundation) |
| NOC |
Network Operation Center |
| NPM |
Network Performance Monitoring |
| NREN |
National Research and Education Network |
| NICE |
The
NICE system developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago allows
children to participate in the creation and maintenance of realistic
virtual worlds, for entertainment and education. Again, by distributing
these virtual world simulations on a Grid, more users can benefit from
the system. |
| National Grids |
The
idea behind National Grids is to couple high-end resources across a
nation. This will provide a strategic "computing reserve" and will
allow substantial computing resources to be applied to large problems
in times of crisis, such as to plan responses to a major environmental
disaster, earthquake, or terrorist attack. Furthermore, such a Grid
will act as a "national collaboratory", supporting collaborative
investigations of complex scientific and engineering problems, such as
global climate change, space station design, and environmental cleanup. |
| Nimrod |
Nimrod
is a tool that manages the execution of parametric studies across
distributed computers. It takes responsibility for the overall
management of an experiment, as well as the low-level issues of
distributing files to remote systems, performing the remote computation
and gathering the results. |
| O |
OAG |
Operation Advisory Group |
| OCC |
Operations Coordination Centre |
| OGSA |
Open Grid Services Architecture |
| OGSI |
Open
Grid Services Infrastructure.OGSI refers to the base infrastructure on
which OGSA is built. At its core is the "Grid Service Specification",
which defines the standard interfaces and behaviors of a Grid service,
building on a Web services base. |
| OMC |
Operation Management Center |
| OMII |
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute |
| Oracle |
Data base management system |
| OSCT |
Operational Security Coordination Team |
| OSI |
Open Science Grid |
| OGSA-DAI |
Open
Grid Service Architecture Data Access and Integraton.The OGSA-DAI
project is concerned with constructing middleware to assist with access
and integration of data from separate data sources via the grid. It is
engaged in identifying the requirements, designing solutions and
delivering software that will meet this purpose. |
| OSG |
The
OSG federate many of the currently disjoint grid resources at U.S. labs
and universities. The goal is to iteratively build and extend existing
grids, such as Grid2003, to enable the use of common grid
infrastructure and shared resources for the benefit of scientific
applications. |
| Openlab |
The
CERN Openlab is a collaboration between CERN and industrial partners to
develop data-intensive Grid technologies to be used by the worldwide
community of scientists working at the next-generation Large Hadron
Collider. These experiments will generate enormous amounts of data,
several million gigabytes a year, and will require a computing
environment thousands of times more powerful and functional than
anything running on today's Internet. |
| P |
PBS |
Product breakdown structure |
| PD |
Project Director |
| PDG |
Protein Design Group |
| PEB |
Project Execution Board |
| PIC |
Policy and International Cooperation |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PM |
x Person Month / Project Month x |
| PMA |
Policy Management Authority |
| PMB |
Project Management Board |
| PO |
Project Office |
| POOL |
HEP software |
| PPS |
Pre-Production Service |
| PPT |
Project Progress Tracking tool |
| PR |
EU Periodic Reports |
| PR |
Public Relations |
| PROOF |
HEP software |
| PS |
Production Service Environment |
| PTD |
Project Technical Director |
| PTF |
Project Technical Forum |
| PRAGMA |
Pacific Rim Applications
and Grid Middleware Assembly.PRAGMA has been founded as an open
organization in which Pacific Rim institutions will collaborate more
formally to develop grid-enabled applications and will deploy the
needed infrastructure throughout the Pacific Region to allow data,
computing, and other resource sharing. Based on current collaborations,
PRAGMA will enhance these collaborations and connections among
individual investigators by promoting visiting scholars' and engineers'
programs, building new collaborations, formalizing resource-sharing
agreements, and continuing trans-Pacific network deployment. |
| Peer to Peer Computing |
By
downloading a piece of software onto your hard drive, you could connect
to a network of other users who have downloaded the same software.
Users only had to specify which information on their hard drive was
public, and could access what others had made public.In this way,
computers can share files and other data directly, without going
through a central server. |
| Private Grids |
Private
Grids (sometimes called local-Grids or intra-Grids) can be useful in
many institutions (hospitals, corporations, small firms, etc). They are
characterized by a relatively small scale, central management and
common purpose and, in most cases, they will probably need to integrate
low-cost commodity technologies. |
| Project Grids |
Project
Grids will likely be created to meet the needs of a variety of
multi-institutional research groups and multi-company "virtual teams",
to pursue short- or medium-term projects (scientific collaborations,
engineering projects). A Project Grid will typically be built from
shared resources for a limited time, and focus on a specific goal.
Typically, this is something a self-motivated team could set up,
without need to apply to any major Public Grid infrastructure for
permission. |
| Q |
QA |
Quality Assurance |
| QAG |
Quality Assurance Group |
| QAM |
Quality Assurance Management |
| QAR |
Quality Assurance Representative |
| QI |
Quality Indicator |
| QoS |
Quality Of Services |
| QR |
EU Quarterly Report |
| QUATTOR |
Optimisation Toolkit for Optimising Resources |
| R |
R-GMA |
Relational-Grid Monitoring Architecture |
| RAID |
Redundant array of inexpensive disks |
| RB |
Resource Broker |
| RBAC |
Rules Based Access Control |
| RC |
Resource Center |
| RDIG |
Russian Data Intensive Grid |
| Remedy |
Problem tracking software for helpdesks |
| RH |
Red Hat |
| RLS |
Replica Location Service |
| RM |
Release Manager |
| ROC |
Regional
Operations Centres.ROCs are the heart of the operational support for
the grid infrastructure. They have a key role as sources of expert
advice and technical support in the process of building and operating
the infrastructure. The ROCs will have the expertise to assist the
growing number of Resource Centres in joining the infrastructure,
through the deployment of middleware releases and the development of
procedures and capabilities to operate those resources. The development
of deployment procedures and documentation will require some effort,
and each initial deployment at a new Resource Centre will require close
support, including on-site assistance where required. This support is
provided by the ROC team. |
| RoGRID |
Romanian GRID |
| RPM |
RPM package Manager |
| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
| RTAG |
Requirements Technical Assessment Group |
| RU |
Russian federation |
| Replica Catalog |
Replica
Catalog, a catalog that allows other Globus tools to look up where on
the Grid other replicas of a given dataset can be found. |
| Replica Management system |
Replica
Management system, which ties together the Replica Catalog and GridFTP
technologies, allowing applications to create and manage replicas of
large datasets. |
| S |
SA |
Specific Service Activity |
| SA1 |
EGEE European Grid Support, Operation and Management activity |
| SA2 |
EGEE Network Resource Provision activity |
| SA3 |
Integration & Testing activity within EGEE II |
| SCG |
Security Coordination Group |
| SCM |
Software Configuration Management |
| SE |
Storage Element |
| SEAL |
HEP software |
| SEE |
South East Europe |
| SEEGRID |
South East Grid e-Infrastructure Development |
| SEEREN |
South East European Research Networking |
| SFT |
Site Functional Test |
| SGM |
Security Group Member |
| SIMBA |
Cern Mailing list management tool |
| SIPS |
Site Integrated Proxy Services |
| SL |
Scientific Linux |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLOC |
Software Lines Of Code (number of) |
| SLR |
Service Level Request |
| SLS |
Service Level Specification |
| SM |
Software manager |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SPI |
Cern Software Process Infrastructure |
| SRB |
The
Storage Resource Broker is a client-server based middleware implemented
at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to provide distributed clients
with uniform access to different types of storage devices, diverse
storage resources, and replicated data sets in a heterogeneous
computing environment.The SRB is a middleware for data grid solution,
which could virtualize resource access, mediate access to distributed
heterogeneous resources, use a MetaCATalog to facilitate the brokering,
and integrates data and metadata. |
| SRM |
Scheduling
and Resource Management.Generate best practice scheduling and resource
management documents, protocols, and API specifications to enable
interoperability. |
| SSA |
Special Support Action |
| SU |
Support unit |
| SURL |
Storage Uniform Resource Location |
| SuSE |
Linux distribution |
| SW |
Software |
| SW |
South West Europe Federation |
| SweGrid |
Swedish national Grid resource for science and research |
| SETI@home |
SETI@home
("SETI at home") is a distributed computing project for
Internet-connected home computers, hosted by the University of
California, Berkeley, in the United States.SETI@home's purpose is to
analyze data incoming from the Arecibo radio telescope, searching for
possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial
intelligence. With over five million users worldwide, the project is
the most successful example of distributed computing to date. |
| T |
TA |
Technical Annex |
| TAB |
Technical Advisory Board |
| TCG |
Technical Coordination Group |
| TD |
Technical Director |
| TNLC |
Technical Network Liaison Committee |
| TPM |
Ticket Process Management |
| TT |
Trouble Ticket |
| TeraGrid |
TeraGrid
is a effort to build and deploy the world's largest, most
comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific
research.By 2004, the TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of computing
power distributed at nine sites, facilities capable of managing and
storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization
environments, and toolkits for grid computing. |
| U |
UF |
Users Forum |
| UIG |
User Information Group |
| UK-I |
UK-Ireland federation |
| UML |
Unified Modelling Language |
| UoW |
University of Wisconsin/Madison |
| US |
United States of America |
| V |
VV |
Verification and Validation activity |
| VDT |
Virtual Data Toolkit |
| VO |
Current
grid development projects are being designed such that they require end
users to be authenticated under the auspices of a "recognized"
organization, called a Virtual Organization (VO). A VO must establish
resource-usage agreements with grid resource providers. The VO is
responsible for authorizing its members for grid computing privileges.
The individual sites and resources typically enforce additional layers
of authorization. |
| VOMS |
VO Management Service |
| W |
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WBS |
Work breakdown structure |
| WCIT |
World Congress on Information Technology |
| WLM |
WorkLoad Management software |
| WMS |
Workload Management System |
| WN |
Worker Node |
| WS |
Web Server |
| WSRF |
Web Services Resource Framework |
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XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
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YAIM |
Yet Another Installation Method |
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