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Glossary of Grid related terms
Below is a (non-exhaustive) glossary of terms and acronyms relating to Grid computing and the EU's IST Programme
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- CERN
- Organisation for Nuclear Research - European Laboratory for Particle Physics (the acronym CERN comes from: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire established originally in 1951)
- CORBA
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit
- DBMS
- Data Base Management System
- DG INFSO
- Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission
- EC
- European Commission
- ERA
- European Research Area
- EU
- European Union
- EU DataGrid
- European Data Grid Project
- FP5
- The EU's 5th Framework Prgramme for RTD
- FP6
- The EU's 6th Framework Prgramme for RTD
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- GEANT
- Pan-European Gigabit research network.
- GGF
- Global Grid Forum; see here
- Globus
- Project that aims at developing fundamental technologies needed to build computational grids.
- GMA
- Grid Monitoring Architecture; monitoring architecture defined by GGF.
- GRAM
- Grid Resource Allocation Management
- GRID computing
- A collection of distributed computing resources available over a local or wide area network that appear to an end user or application as one large virtual computing system.
- GSI
- Grid Security Infrastructure (Globus Security mechanism).
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- HTML
- Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- IP
- Internet Protocol
- IP
- Integrated Project (a new instrument introduced by the EU in FP6)
- IPv6
- Internet Protocol version 6
- ISDN
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- IST
- Information Society Technologies
- JDL
- Job Description Language; to describe Grid jobs.
- KB
- KiloByte
- MB
- MegaByte
- MDS
- Globus Meta-computing Directory Service
- MUI
- Monitoring User Interface
- NoE
- Networks of Excellence - a new instrument introduced under FP6
- OGSA
- Open Grid Services Architecture
- OS
- Operating System
- PB
- PetaByte
- Portable Document Format
- PKI
- Public Key Infrastructure
- QoS
- Quality of Service
- RB
- Resource Broker
- RDBMS
- Relational Database Management System
- RMS
- Resource Management Subsystem
- RPC
- Remote Procedure Call
- RTD
- Research and Technological Development
- SOAP
- Simple Object Access Protocol (XML-based protocol for exchange of information in a decentralised, distributed environment)
- SQL
- Standard Query Language for relational databases.
- UI
- User Interface
- UML
- Unified Modeling Language; a notation for describing software systems.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- VO
- Virtual Organization; A set of individuals defined by certain sharing rules - e.g. members of a collaboration.
- VPN
- Virtual Private Network
- W3C
- Worldwide Web consortium
- WAI
- Web accessibility Initiative
- Web services
- a new breed of Web applications that are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications whcih can be published, located, and invoked across the Web. Web services perform functions, which can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes. Once a Web service is deployed, other applications (and other Web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service.
- WP 2005-2006
- Work Programme 2005-2006
- WSDL
- Web Services Description Language
- WWW
- World Wide Web
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language