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Grid Abbreviation List

A&A	Astronomy and Astrophysics
AA	Attribute Authority
AAA	Authorisation, Authentication, Accounting
ABA	Attribute Based Authorization
AFS	Andrew File System
AIP	Archival Information Package
AMI	Amazon Machine Image
ANDS	Australian National Data Service
APGridPMA	Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management Authority
API	Application Programming Interface
ARC	Advanced Resource Connector
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATP	Aggregation Topology Provider
AUP	Acceptable Use Policy
BEinGRID	Business Experiments in Grid
BDII	Berkeley Database Information Index
BOINC	Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (volunteer computing)
BSM	Business Service Management
CA	Certification Authority
CASD-NMR	Critical Assessment of automated Structure Determination of proteins by NMR
CASTOR	CERN Advanced STORage manager
CCSDS	Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CDC	Commercial Data Center
CDISC	Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
CE	Computing Element (gLite); Central Europe (EGEE/EGI)
CERN	Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
CG	Community Grid
CGS	Commercial Grid System
CIC	Core Infrastructure Center
CIM	Common Information Model
CIS	Common Information System (UNICORE)
ClassAd	Classiﬁed advertisement (Condor)
CLARIN	Common LAnguage Resources and technology INterface
CLI	Command Line Interface
CMS	Compact Muon Solenoid (LHC)
CNAF	INFN’s National Center for Telematics and Informatics
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CRF	Case Report Forms
CRUD	Create/Read/Update/Delete (repositories)
CSIRT	Computer Security Incident Response Team
CSV	Character Separated Values
dcap	dCache Access Protocol
DANTE	Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe
DARIAH	Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
DB	Data Base
DDBJ	DNA Data Bank of Japan
DECH	Germany/Switzerland region
DECI	DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative
DEISA	Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputer Applications
DESY	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton
DFN	Deutsches Forschungsnetz
DGAS	Distributed Grid Accounting System
DGAS-EE	Distributed Grid Accounting System - Enterprise Edition
DIANE	Distributed Analysis Environment (tool that helps to organize work in master/worker model)
DICE	Data Intensive Computing Environment (distributed test bed)
DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DIT	Directory Information Tree (LDAP)
DLI	Data Location Interface
DMZ	Demilitarized Zone (firewall)
DN	Distinguished Name
DOI	Digital Object Identifier
DQP	Distributed Query Processing
EBI	European Bioinformatics Institute
EC	European Commission
EDC	Electronic Data Capture
EDG	European Data Grid
EDGeS	Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science
EDT	European Data TAG
EEF	European E-infrastructure Forum
EGEE	Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGI	European Grid Initiative
EGI_DS	EGI Design Study
eIRG	e-Infrastructure Reflection Group
ENOC	EGEE Network Operation Centre
EPR	End-Point Reference
ERA	European Research Area
ERI	European Research Infrastructure
ES	Earth Sciences
ESFRI	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
ESM	Experiment Software Manager
EU	European Union
EUGridPMA	European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication
FCR	Freedom of Choice for Resources
FNAL	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FTS	File Transfer Service
GAT	Grid Application Toolkit
GFAL	Grid File Access Library
GG	Grid Gate (aka gatekeeper)
GGF	Global Grid Forum (now called OGF)
GGUS	Global Grid User Support
GIDS	Grid-based Intrusion Detection System
GIIS	Grid Index Information Server
GILDA	Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities
GLUE	Grid Laboratory for a Uniform Environment
GMA	Grid Monitoring Architecture
GMD	Grid MetaData
gNOC	National Grid Operating Centre
GOC	Grid Operations Centre
GPE	Grid Programming Environment
GRAAP-WG	Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol - Working Group
GRAM	Grid Resource Allocation Manager
GReLC	Grid Relational Catalog
GridKa	Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe
GRIS	Grid Resource Information Service
GRRS	Grid Resource Registration Service
GSH	Grid Service Handle
GSI	Grid Security Infrastructure
gsidcap	GSI-enabled version of the dCache Access Protocol
gsirﬁo	GSI-enabled version of the Remote File Input/Output protocol
GSR	Grid Service Reference
GT	Globus Toolkit
GUI	Graphical User Interface
GUID	Grid Unique ID
GVSS	Gap-based Virtual Screen Service (drug docking simulation)
HEP	High Energy Physics
HPC	High Performance Computing
HPCS	High Productivity Computer System
HPSS	High Performance Storage System
HSM	Hierarchical Storage Manager
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
ICH	International Conference on Harmonisation
ICS	Image Creation Station
ID	Identifier
IE	Instrument Element
IGE	Initiative for Globus in Europe
IGTF	International Grid Trust Federation
IHE	Integrating the Healthcare Enterprises
ILDG	International Lattice Data Grid
INFN	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
IP	Internet Protocol
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPv6	Internet Protocol version 6
iRODS	integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
IS	Information Service
ISF	Investigator Site File
ISGC	International Symposium on Grid Computing
iSGTW	international Science Grid This Week
IVOM	Interoperability and integration of VO Management
JDL	Job Description Language
JRA	Joint Research Activity #n
JRU	Joint Research Unit
JSDL	Job Submission Description Language
JSPG	Joint Security Policy Group
kdcap	Kerberos-enabled version of the dCache Access Protocol
LAN	Local Area Network
LB	Logging and Bookkeeping Service
LCG	LHC Computing Grid
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LFC	LCG File Catalogue
LFN	Logical File Name
LHC	Large Hadron Collider
LRC	Local Replica Catalogue
LRMS	Local Resource Management System (sometimes called batch system)
LSF	Load Sharing Facility
LTS	Long Time Storage
MC	Monte Carlo method
MDS	Monitoring and Discovery System (Globus Toolkit); MetaData Server
MIR	Music Information Retrieval
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding
MPI	Message Passing Interface
MSS	Mass Storage System
NA	Network Activity #n
NAREGI	NAtional REseach Grid Initiative (Japan)
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCSA	US National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NE	Northern Europe
NGI	National Grid Initiative
NMR	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NREN	National Reseach and Education Network
NS	Network Server
OAI	Open Archives Initiative
OAI-PMH	OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OAIS	Open Archival Information System
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OCC	Operation Coordination Centre
ODM	Operational Data Model
OGF	Open Grid Forum (formerly called GGF)
OGSA	Open Grid Services Architecture
OGSA-DAI	OGSA Data Access and Integration
OGSI	Open Grid Services Infrastructure
OMII	Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe
OS	Operating System
OSCAR	Open Source Chemistry Analysis Routines (ontology)
PARSE	Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe
PB	Policy Board
PBS	Portable Batch System
PEP	Policy Enforcement Point
PFN	Physical File Name
P-GRADE	Parallel Grid Run-time and Application Development Environment portal
PI	Persistent Identifier
PID	Process IDentifier
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PMA	Policy Management Authority
POOL	Pool of Persistent Objects for LHC
PPS	Pre-Production Service
PRACE	Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
PRAGMA	Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly
PSA	Parameter Sweep Application
QA	Quality Assurance
QoS	Quality of Service
RA	Registration Authority
RAL	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
RB	Resource Broker
RC	Resource Centre
RCE	Remote Component Environment
RDF	Resource Description Framework
RESERVOIR	Resources and Services Virtualisation without Barriers
RESPECT	Recommended External Software Program for EGEE Communities
RFIO	Remote File Input/Output
RFT	Reliable File Transfer
R-GMA	Relational Grid Monitoring Archictecture
RHIC	Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (at Brookhaven National Lab)
RLI	Replica Location Index
RLS	Replica Location Service
RM	Replica Manager
RMC	Replica Metadata Catalogue
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RMS	Replica Management System
ROC	Regional Operations Centre
ROD	Regional On Duty
ROS	Replica Optimization Service
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RSL	Recource Specification Language
SA	Service Activity #n
SaaS	Software as a Service
SAGA	Simple API for Grid Applications
SAM	Service Availability Monitoring
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
SASL	Simple Authorization & Security Layer (LDAP)
SDC	Strategic Discipline Centre
SDE	Service Data Element
SDI	Spatial Data Infrastructure
SDT	Service Description Term
SE	Storage Element
SEE	South East Europe
SEE-GRID-SCI	SEE-Grid einfrastructure for regional eSCIence
SFN	Site File Name
SGE	Sun Grid Engine
SHC	Service Hosting Cloud
SIP	Submission Information Package
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLC	Short Lived Certificate
SLCS	Short Lived Credential Service
SLO	Service Level Objective
S/MIME	Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SMP	Symmetric Multi Processor
SMSCG	Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid
SN	Subject Name
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
SOC	Service Oriented Computing
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SPOI	Single Point Of Information
SQL	Structured Query Language
SPRUCE	Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment
SRB	Storage Resource Broker
SRM	Storage Resource Manager
SSC	Specialized Support Centre (EGI); Security Service Challenge (EGEE)
SSI	Software Sustainability Institute (UK)
SSL	Secure Socket Layer
StoRM	STOrage Resource Manager
STS	Short Time Storage
SuGI	Sustainable Grid Infrastructure (D-Grid)
SURL	Storage URL
SW	Software
SWE	South West Europe
T2K	Tokai to Kamioka (neutrino experiment)
TAB	Technical Advisory Board
TERENA	Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TPM	Ticket Processing Manager
TSLA	Task SLA
TURL	Transport URL
UCC	UNICORE Commandline Client
UI	User Interface
UKIF	United Kingdom, Ireland, France
UKRDS	United Kingdom Research Data Service
UMD	Universal Middleware Distribution
UNICORE	Uniform Interface to Computing Resources
UNOSAT	United Nations Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Program
UR	Usage Record
UR-WG	Usage Record - Working Group (OGF)
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
URN	Uniform Resource Name
UUDB	UNICORE User Database
UUID	Universal Unique ID
VCR	Virtual Control Room (portal supporting gLite and IE)
VDT	Virtual Data Toolkit
VLAM	Virtual Laboratory Abstract Machine
VM	Virtual Machine
VMM	Virtual Machine Manager
VO	Virtual Organization
VOX	VOMS eXtension
VOMRS	Virtual Organization Membership Registration Service
VOMS	Virtual Organization Membership Service
VRC	Virtual Research Community
VRE	Virtual Research Environment
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WDC	World Data Center
WDCC	World Data Center Climate
WLCG	Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
WMS	Workload Management System
WN	Worker Node
WP	Work Package #n
WRF	Weather Research and Forecasting modeling system
WS	Work Shop; Web Service
WSAG4J	WS-Agreement for Java
WS-BPEL	WS Business Process Execution Language
WSDL	Web Services Description Language
WSRF	Web Service Resource Framework
WWWC	World Wide Web Consortium
XFEL	X-ray Free Electron Laser
XGE	Xen Grid Engine
XML	Extensible Markup Language

Topic revision: r9 - 2010-04-30 - TorstenRathmann

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