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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