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

 

Y

Z

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