Glossary
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You may also find the following Glossaries useful:
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- AFS
- Andrew File System
- AHE
- Application Hosting Environment
- B
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- BDII
- Berkely Database Information Index
- C
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- CA
- Certification Authority
- D
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- DN
- Distinguished Name: the unique identifying string (subject) in a certificate
- E
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- EGEE
- Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
- EGI
- European Grid Infrastructure (http://www.egi.eu/)
- G
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- GEMLCA
- To be Added
- Glite
- The middleware for grid computing developed for the LHC and used by many parts of EGEE
- Globus
- The Globus Alliance produce the Globus Toolkit
- GLUE
- Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment
- GOCDB
- Grid Operations Centre DataBase: it is the official repository for storing and presenting EGI topology and resources information (https://goc.egi.eu/)
- GridFTP
- File Transfer Protocol for the Grid
- GridPP
- UK Particle Physics Grid
- GridSAFE
- An accounting and monitoring software funded by JISC
- GridSAM
- Provides a simple open-standards-based Web Service for job submission
- GSI
- Grid Security Infrastructure
- GSI-SSHTERM
- A terminal based secure shell (SSH) which is integrated with GSI middleware
- GT2
- Version 2 of the Globus Toolkit; similarly for GT3, GT4 and GT5
- I
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- INCA
- Grid monitoring software used by the NGS (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/tools/hermes)
- L
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- LSF
- Load Sharing Facility, a job scheduler from Platform Computing
- M
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- MEG
- MyProxy-Enabled GSIsshd
- O
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- OGSA-DAI
- To be Added
- OMII-UK
- Formerly the 'Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK', OMII-UK provides and supports free, open-source software to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Research community
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- P-Grade
- A portal for accessing the NGS
- PBS
- Portable Batch System, a job scheduler
- PKI
- Public Key Infrastructure
- PRACE
- To be added
- pre-WS GRAM
- To be added
- R
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- RUS
- To be added
- S
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- SARoNGS
- Shibboleth Access to Resources on the NGS
- SGE
- Sun Grid Engine, a job scheduler
- SLD
- Service Level Description
- SRB
- Storage Request Broker
- SRM
- Storage Resource Manager
- SSC
- Specialised Support Centre
- SSH
- Secure Shell
- SToRM
- To be added
- SUSE
- One "flavour" of Linux
- U
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- UEE
- Uniform Execution Environment
- UI
- User Interface machine
- UNICORE
- To be added
- V
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- VDT
- Virtual Data Toolkit
- VO
- Virtual Organisation
- VOMS
- Virtual Organization Membership Service
- W
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- WGRASS
- To be Added
- WLCG
- Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
