A. Glossary

AFS
Andrew File System (http://www.openafs.org/frameless/main.html)
API
Application Programming Interface
Bugzilla
Open source bug-tracking software (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/)
CA
Certificate Authority
CASTOR
CERN Advanced STORage Manager (http://castor.web.cern.ch/castor/)
CE
Computing Element
CERN
European Laboratory for Particle Physics (http://www.cern.ch/)
CPU
Central Processing Unit
EDG
European DataGrid (http://www.edg.org/)
GGF
Global Grid Forum (http://www.gridforum.org/)
Gin
EDG program to publish resource state information to R-GMA
GK
Gatekeeper
GLUE
Grid Laboratory Universal Environment (http://www.hicb.org/glue/glue.htm)
GridFTP
FTP protocol with GSI security (http://www.globus.org/datagrid/gridftp.html)
GRM
EDG application monitoring package
GSI
Globus Security Infrastructure (http://www.globus.org/security/)
GUID
Grid Unique IDentifier
HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (http://www.iana.org/)
IC
Information Catalog
IO
Input/Output
JDL
Job Description Language
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (http://www.openldap.org/)
LFN
Logical File Name
LRC
Local Replica Catalog
LSF
Load Sharing Facility (http://www.platform.com/products/LSF/)
MON
Monitoring node type
MPI
Message Passing Interface (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/)
MSS
Mass Storage System
P12
Format for certificates combining public and private keys
PBS
Portable Batch System (http://www.openpbs.org/)
PEM
Format for certificates allows separated public and private keys
PKCS12
Public-Key Cryptography Standards (version 12)
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/catalog/un.htm version 3)
PROVE
Visualization program for GRM
RAL
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (http://www.rl.ac.uk/)
RB
Resource Broker
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
RFIO
Remote File IO
R-GMA
Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture
RLI
Replica Location Index
RLS
Replica Location Service
RMC
Replica Metadata Catalog
RM
Replica Manager
ROS
Replica Optimization Service
SE
Storage Element
SQL
Structured Query Language
SRM
Storage Resource Model
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
SURL
Storage URL
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TURL
Transport URL
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UI
User Interface
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
VOMS
Virtual Organization Membership Service
VO
Virtual Organization
WN
Worker Node
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
XML
eXtensible Markup Language


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