Glossary
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
A
- ACL
- Access Control List
- ACOnet
- Austrian Academic Computer Network
- ADIC
- Advances Digital Information Corporation
- AF
- Architect Forum
- AFS
- Andrew File System
- AIOD
- AliEn I/O Daemon
- ALICE
- A Large Ion Collider Experiment (LHC experiment)
- AliEn
- Alice Environment
- AMD
- Advanced Micro Devices (semiconductor company)
- AOD
- Analysis Object Data (LCG)
- API
- Application Program Interface
- ARC
- Advanced Resource Connector
- ARDA
- A Realisation of Distributed Analysis for LHC
- ASAP
- ARDA Support for CMS Analysis Processing
- ASN
- Autonomous System Number
- ATA
- Advances Technology Attachment, 16 bit disk interface
- ATLAS
- A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (LHC experiment)
- AUP
- Acceptable User Policy
B
- BDII
- Berkeley Database Information Index
- BGP
- Border Gateway Protocol
- BKDB
- Book-keeping Database
- BOSS
- Batch Object Submission System
- BQS
- Batch Queueing System
C
- CA
- Certificate Authority
- CAF
- CERN Analysis Facility
- CASTOR
- CERN Advanced STORage manager
- CB
- Collaboration Board
- CDB
- Condition Database
- CE
- Computing Element
- CERN
- European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- CIC
- Core Infrastructure Centres
- CIDR
- Classless Inter-Domain Routing
- CINT
- C/C++ INTerpreter
- CLI
- Command Line Interface
- CNAF
- INFN’s National Center for Telematics and Informatics
- CMT
- Configuration Management Tool
- COOL
- Conditions Database Project
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit
- CRAB
- CMS Remote Analysis Building
- C-RRB
- Computing Remote Analysis Review Board
D
- DAQ
- Data Acquisition System
- DBMS
- Data Base Management System
- DBS
- Dataset Book-keeping System (CMS)
- DC
- Data Challenge
- dCache
- Hierarchical Storage Manager (DESY, FNAL)
- DCGC
- Danish Centre for Grid Computing
- DCS
- Detector Control System
- DDM
- Distributed Data Management
- DGAS
- Data Grid Accounting System
- DIAL
- Distributed Interactive Analysis of Large Datasets
- DIRAC
- Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control
- DIT
- Directory Information Tree
- DLI
- Data Location Interface
- DLS
- Data Location System (CMS)
- DN
- Distinguished Names (LDAP’s)
- DPM
- Disk Pool Manager
- DRD
- RAW data plus selected ESD object
- DST
- Data Summary Tape, LHCb
E
- ECS
- Experiment Control System
- EDG
- European Data Grid
- EDT
- European DataTag
- EF
- Event Filter
- EGEE
- Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (in Europe)
- ELFms
- Extremely Large Fabric management system
- Enstore
- Mass storage system (FNAL)
- ESD
- Event Summary Data
- ESM
- Experiment Software Manager
F
- FC
- File Catalogue
- FiReMan
- File and Replica Management
- FML
- Fitting and Minimization Library
- FPS
- gLite Transfer Service
- FTS
- File Transfer Service
G
- GAG
- Grid Application Group
- GANGA
- Gaudi / Athena Grid Alliance
- Gb
- Gigabit
- GB
- Gigabyte
- GDB
- Grid Deployment Board
- GDML
- Geometry Description Markup Language
- GEANT
- main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes
- GENSER
- Generator Library
- GFAL
- Grid File Access Library
- GG
- Grid Gate
- GGF
- Global Grid Forum
- GGUS
- Grid User Support Centre
- GIIS
- Grid Index Information Service
- gLite
- Lightweight middleware for Grid computing
- GLUE
- Grid Laboratory for a Uniform Environment
- GNU
- GNU's Not Unix - recursive acronym
- GOC
- Grid Operations Centre
- GRAM
- Globus Resource Allocation Manager
- GridFTP
- Grid Service for File Transfer
- GridICE
- Grid Monitoring middleware
- GRIS
- Grid Resource Information Service
- GSI
- Grid Security Infrastructure
- GSL
- GNU Scientific Library
- gSOAP
- Toolkit for the development of SOAP/XML Web services inC/C++
- GT2
- Globus Toolkit Version 2
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- GUID
- Grid Unique ID
H
- HEP
- High Energy Physics
- HEPCAL
- HEP Application Grid requirements
- HLT
- High Level Trigger
- HMS
- Hardware Management System
- HPSS
- High Performance Storage System
- HSM
- Hierarchical Storage Manager
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I
- I/O
- Input/Output
- IBA
- Infiniband
- ID
- Identifier
- IGP
- Interior Gateway Protocol
- INFN
- Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- IOV
- Interval Of Validity
- IPC
- Inter Process Communication
- IS
- Information Service
- iVDGL
- International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
J
- Jabber
- open XML-based protocol for instant messaging
- JCS
- Job Control Service
- JDL
- Job Description Language
K
L
- LAN
- Local Area Network
- LB
- Logging and Book-keeping Service
- LCAS
- Local Centre Authorization Service
- LCG
- LHC Computing Grid
- LCMAPS
- Local Credential Mapping Service
- LDAP
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LEAF
- LHC-Era Automated Fabric
- LEMON
- LHC Era Monitoring
- LFC
- LCG File Catalogue
- LFN
- Local File Name
- LHC
- Large Hadron Collider
- LHCb
- Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment
- LHCC
- Large Hadron Collider experiments Committee
- LGC
- LHC Computing Grid
- LPM
- Landau, Pomeranchuk and Migdal suppression of bremsstrahlung
- LRC
- Local Replica Catalogue
- LRMS
- Local Resource Management System
- LSF
- Load Sharing Facility
- LTO
- Linear Tape-Open
- LXBATCH
- Linux Cluster for BATCH processing at CERN
- LXR
- Linux Cross Reference
M
- MAN
- Metro Area Network
- Mb
- Megabit
- MB
- Megabyte
- MC
- Monte Carlo
- MCDB
- Monte Carlo Database
- MINUIT
- Fred James function minimization and error analysis package
- MonaLisa
- MONitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture
- MDS
- Monitoring and Discovery Service
- MoU
- Memorandum of Understanding
- MPI
- Message Passing Interface
- MSI2000
- Million SpecInt 2000
- MSS
- Mass Storage System
- MTBF
- Mean Time Between Failures
N
- NAS
- Network-Attached Storage
- NDGF
- Nordic Data Grid Facility
- NIC
- Network Interface Card
- NOC
- Network Operation Centre
- NREN
- National Research and Education Network
- NS
- Network Server
O
- OCTOPUS
- CMS production system
- OMC
- Operations Management Centre
- OMDS
- Online Master Data Storage (LHCb)
- OpenLDAP
- Open Source Version of LDAP
- OpenSSL
- Open Source Version of SSL
- OPN
- Optical Private Network
- ORCA
- Object Reconstruction for CMS Analyses
- ORCOF
- Offline Reconstruction Conditions database OFfline (LCHb)
- OS
- Operating System
- OSCT
- Operational Security Coordination Team
- OSG
- Open Science Grid
P
- PB
- Petabyte (1.000.000 GB)
- PBS
- Portable Batch System
- PDB
- Processing Database
- PFN
- Physical File name
- PhEDEx
- Physics Experiment Data Export
- PID
- Process IDentifier
- PKI
- Public Key Infrastructure
- PMA
- Policy Management Authorities
- POOL
- Pool of Persistent Objects for LHC
- POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface
- PPDG
- Particle Physics Data Grid
- PyLCGDict
- Python binding to the LCG Dictionary
- PyROOT
- a run-time based python binding to the ROOT framework
Q
- QCD
- Quantum Chromo Dynamics
- QDA
- Quad Data Rate
R
- RAC
- Real Application Clusters
- RAID
- Redundant Array of Independent Discs
- RAL
- Relational Access Layer
- RAW
- Raw data file
- RB
- Resource Broker
- RDBMS
- Relational Database Management System
- RDMA
- Remote Direct Memory Access
- RECO
- Reconstructed events (CMS)
- RFIO
- Remote File Input/Output
- R-GMA
- Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture
- RIR
- Regional Internet Registry
- RLI
- Replica Location Index
- RLS
- Replica Location Service
- RM
- Replica Manager
- RMAN
- Recovery Manager (Oracle)
- RMC
- Replica Metadata Catalogue
- RMS
- Replica Management System
- ROC
- Regional Operations Centres
- ROS
- Replica Optimization Service
S
- SAN
- Storage Area Network
- SAS
- Serial Attaches SCSI
- SASL
- Simple Authorization and Security Layer (LDAP)
- SATA
- Serial ATA
- SC
- Service Challenge
- SCRAM
- Software Configuration, Release and Management
- SCSI
- Small Computing System Interface
- SDLT
- Super Digital Linear Tape
- SE
- Storage Element
- SFT
- Site Functional Tests
- SIMU
- Simulation
- SMP
- Symmetric Multi Processor
- SMS
- State Management System
- SOAP
- Simple Access Object Protocol
- SPEC
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
- SPECint
- SPEC: testing integer arithmetic
- SPECfp
- SPEC: testing floating point performance
- SPI
- Software Process Infrastructure
- SRB
- Storage Resource Broker
- SRM
- Storage Resource Manager
- SSE
- Smart Storage Element
- SSL
- Secure Socket Layer
- SURL
- Storage Unique Resource Locator
T
- TAG
- Event-Index Information
- Tb
- Terrabit
- TB
- Terrabyte
- THEPEG
- Toolkit for High Energy Physics Event Generation
- TMDB
- Transfer Management Database (CMS)
- TSM
- Tivoli Storage Manager
- TURL
- Transport URL
U
- UI
- User Interface
- UNICORE
- Uniform Interface to Computing Resources
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL
- Universal Resource Locator
- UUID
- Universal Unique ID
V
- VDT
- Virtual Data Toolkit
- VO
- Virtual Organisation
- VOMS
- Virtual Organisation Management System
W
- WAN
- Wide Area Network
- WDM
- Wavelength Division Multiplexer
- WLCG
- Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
- WM
- Workload Management
- WMS
- Workload Management System
- WN
- Worker Node
- WPn
- Work Package #n
X
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language
- XMPP
- eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
- XRSL
- Extended Resource Specification Language