| ACL |
Access Control List; used to enable/disable kinds of access to resources. |
| AD |
Actuator Dispatcher |
AFS |
Andrew File System |
| AMS |
Archive Management System |
| Annotation |
Comment, like a biological property, attached to a particular section of
a genome |
| AOD |
Analysis Object Data; used in HEP: information used in final analysis. |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| ATF |
DataGrid Architecture Task Force |
| ATSR |
Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BADC |
British Atmospheric Data Center |
| BDII |
Berkeley Database Information Index. Cache of testbed status
information for Resource Broker. Implementation based on standard OpenLDAP. |
| BIOS |
Basic Input/Output System |
| BOOTP |
BootstrapProtocol |
| BS |
Bootstrap Service |
| CA |
Certification Authority |
CAS |
Community Authorisation Service |
CCM |
Configuration Cache Manager |
CDB |
Configuration DataBase |
CDP |
Configuration Distribution Protocol |
| CDR |
Central Data Recording |
| CE |
Computing Element; a Grid-enabled computing resource. |
| CERN |
Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
CERT |
X.509 Certificate |
CLI |
Command Line Interface |
CMP |
Cache Manager Protocol |
CMS |
Compact Muon Solenoid |
| CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
CORBA |
Commom Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CT scanner |
Medical image acquisition device. Scanner reconstructing 3D volumes from
X-ray projections using computed tomography. CT images best show dense tissues. |
| CVS |
Concurrent Versioning System |
| DAQ |
Data Acquisition |
| DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DICOM |
Industry standard for transfer of radiologic images and medical
applications between computers. The current version of the DICOM standard is 3.0. |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
DMTF |
Distributed Management Task Force |
| DNA |
Nucleic acid that constitutes the genetic material of all cellular
organisms and the DNA viruses |
| DNA-chips |
allows expression data from many genes to be collected very quickly |
| DPD |
Derived Physics Data |
| EC |
European Commission |
| Echography |
Medical image acquisition device. Ultrasound images are acquired by
measuring the signal of on ultrasound beam reflected by the imaged tissues. |
| EDG |
European Data Grid; (official project name is “DataGrid”). |
| Ejection Fraction |
Ratio of heart ventricular volume at end of diastole and end of systole
(extremes of the cardiac cycle). The ejection fraction measures the heart pumping
efficiency (a normal left ventricle EF is approximately 60% while a pathological heart may
have much lower EF). |
| ENEA |
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, L'Energia e l'Ambiente |
| ENVISAT |
ENVIronment SATellite |
| EO |
Earth Observation |
| EPFL |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| ERS |
European Remote Sensing Satellite |
| ES |
Earth Science |
| ESD |
Event Summary Data; used in HEP: information required for detailed
analysis and high-level reconstruction. |
| ESRD |
Earth Science Requirement document |
| EU DataGrid |
European Data Grid Project |
FabNAT |
Fabric Network Address Translation service |
| FLIDS |
Fabric-Local Identity Service |
| FMFT |
Fabric Monitoring and Fault Tolerance |
| FSM |
Finite State Machine |
| FTA |
Fault Tolerance Actuator |
| FTDU |
Fault Tolerance Correlation Engine |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GDMP |
Grid Data Mirroring Package; a WP2 application. |
| Gene |
Hereditary unit that is composed of a sequence of DNA and occupies a
specific position |
| Genome |
The genome of an organism is its set of chromosomes, containing all of
its genes and associated DNA. |
| Genomics |
Generation of information about living things by systematic approaches
that can be performed on an industrial scale |
| GGF |
Global Grid Forum; see http://www.Gridforum.org/ |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIS |
Grid Information Service; (e.g. IMS or Globus MDS). |
| Globus |
Project that aims at developping fundamental technologies needed to build
computational grids. |
| GMA |
Grid Monitoring Architecture; monitoring architecture defined by GGF. |
GNU |
GNU's Not Unix |
| GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
GRAM |
Grid Resource Allocation Management |
GriFIS |
Grid Fabric Information Service |
| GS |
Grid Scheduler; service responsible for selecting which Grid resources to
use for a given job. |
| GSI |
Grid Security Infrastructure (Globus Security mechanism). |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data Format by NCSA, version 5. Library and file format for
storing scientific data. |
HEP |
High Energy Physics |
HLD |
High-Level Description |
| Homology |
Relationship among sequences due to descent from a common ancestral
sequence |
| HSM |
Hierarchical Storage Manager. HSM software allows infrequently accessed
data to be migrated to less expensive offline storage automatically. |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HW |
Hardware |
| I/O |
Input/Output |
| II: Information Index |
Cache of testbed status information for Resource
Broker. MDS-based implementation. |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
| IMS |
Information and Monitoring System; catalogue and distribute static and
dynamic data about the Grid. |
| IPSL |
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace |
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| JDL |
Job Description Language; to describe Grid jobs. |
| JSS |
Job Submission Service |
| KNMI |
Royal Netherlands Metereological Institute |
| L3 |
Level 3 trigger |
| LB |
Logging and Bookkeeping |
LCAS |
Local Centre Authorisation Service |
| LCG |
LHC Computing Grid |
LCMAPS |
Local Credential MAPping Service |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LFN |
Logical File Name; A globally unique name to identify a specific file
which is mapped by the RC onto one or more PFNs. |
| LHC |
Large Hadron Collider |
LLD |
Low-Level Description |
| LON |
Logical Object Name |
| LRMS |
Local Resource Management System; controls resources within a CE e.g. PBS
or LSF. |
| LSF |
Load Sharing Facility |
MDS |
Globus Meta-computing Directory Service |
| Metabolism |
Sum of all the chemical and physical processes within a living organism,
including anabolism and catabolism |
| MIPAS |
Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding |
| MLD |
Machine Level Description |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
| MPI |
Standard API for exchanging messages between networked computers. Several
implementations of MPI are available on different platforms. MPICH is a freely available,
portable implementation of the MPI standard. A Globus-aware MPICH implementation is
proposed on Globus home page |
| MR |
Monitoring Repository |
| MRI scanner |
Medical image acquisition device used for imaging soft tissues. MR images
are obtained by embedding the body in an intense magnetic field and using the resonance
property of hydrogen protons to locate them. |
| MS |
Monitoring Sensor |
| MSA |
Monitoring Sensor Agent |
| MSS |
Mass Storage System |
| MUI |
Monitoring User Interface |
| MySQL |
Widely distributed SQL open source implementation. |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NFS |
Network File System |
| NIKHEF |
National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics |
| NIS |
Network Information System |
| NMA |
Node Management Agent |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OPERA |
Operational Programme for the Exchange of weather RAdar information |
| OS |
Operating System |
| PB |
PetaByte |
| PDS |
Payload Data Segment |
| PET scanner |
Medical image acquisition device. PET scanner detects gamma photons
produced by the disintegration of radioactive material injected in the imaged body. |
| PFN |
Physical File Name; URL of actual physical instance of an LFN. |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PM |
Project Manager |
| PMB |
Project Management Board |
| PO |
Project Office |
| PON |
Physical Object Name |
| Post-genomics |
aims to discover the biological function of particular genes and to
uncover how sets of genes and their products work together in health and diseases |
| PPR |
Project Progress Report |
| PQP |
Project Quality Plan |
| Protein |
Class of organic compounds that are made of amino acids |
| Proteome |
Protein complement of an organism coded for by its genome |
| Proteomics |
Analysis of complete complements of proteins |
| PTB |
DataGrid Project Technical Board |
| PXE |
Preboot eXecution Environment |
| QC |
Quality Correspondent |
| QE |
Quality Engineer |
| QoS |
Quality of Service |
| RAMS |
Regional Atmospheric Modelling System |
| RB |
Resource Broker |
| RC |
Replica Catalog; associates an LFN to one or more PFNs. |
| RCS |
Revision Control System |
| RD |
Research and Development |
| RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
| Replica |
A copy of a file that is managed by the Grid middleware. |
| Replica Service |
The combination of Replica Catalogue, Replica Manager, and all associated components. |
| RM |
Replica Manager; provides several services related to replicas. |
| RMS |
Resource Management Subsystem |
ROI |
Region of interest |
| RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
| RPM |
Red Hat Package Manager |
| RSL |
Globus Resource Specification Language |
| RUP |
Rational Unified Process |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network. |
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SARA |
Academic Computing Services of Amsterdam |
| SCIAMACHY |
SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY |
| SE |
Storage Element; a Grid-enabled storage system. |
| Sequencing |
Analytical procedures for the determination of the order of amino acids
in a protein or of nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule |
| SI2000 |
SpecInt 2000 Benchmark |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SP |
Software Package |
| SPOT |
System Pour Observation de la Terre |
| SQL |
Standard Query Language for relational databases. |
| SR |
Software Repository |
| SRV |
Short for Server. |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| SW |
Software |
| TAG |
Event Selection Tag; used in HEP: used for fast event selection. |
| TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
| TBD |
To Be Determined |
| TC |
Technical Coordinator |
| TeV |
Tera electron Volt |
| Testbed 0 |
DataGrid initial Glogus toolkit deployment |
| Testbed 1 |
First release of DataGrid Software - Year 1 |
| Testbed 2 |
Second release of DataGrid Software - Year 2 |
| Testbed 3 |
Third release of DataGrid Software - Year 3 |
| TFN |
Transport File Name; URL to access a given file on a SE. |
| TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
TOI |
Time of interest |
| UI |
User Interface |
| ULM |
Universal Logger Message |
| UML |
Unified Modeling Language; a notation for describing software systems. |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| VAC |
Value Adding Company |
| VO |
Virtual Organization; A set of individuals defined by certain sharing
rules - e.g. members of a collaboration. |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling language |
| WM |
Workload Management |
| WMS |
Workload Management System |
| WP |
Work Package |
WP1 |
Grid Work Scheduling |
WP2 |
Grid Data Management |
WP3 |
Grid Monitoring Services |
WP4 |
Fabric Management |
WP5 |
Mass Storage Management |
| WP6 |
Integration Testbed and Demonstrators |
| WP7 |
Network Services |
| WP8 |
HEP Applications |
| WP9 |
Earth Observation Applications |
| WP10 |
Biology Applications |
| WP11 |
Dissemination |
| WP12 |
Project Management |
| WPM |
Work Package Manager |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
