Glossary

(a very limited/partial glossary)

  • ARC : Advanced Resource Connector

  • BDII : Berkeley Database Information Index

  • CA : Certification Authority

  • CE : Computing Element

  • CRL : Certifcate Revocation List

  • CS : Confguration Service

  • DISET : DIRAC (DIrac SEcure Transport) In-House client/service protocol

  • DMS : Data Management System

  • DN : Distinguished Name

  • DST : Data Summary Tape

  • FTS : File Transfer Service

  • GFAL : Grid File Access Library

  • GLUE : Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment

  • GridFTP : Grid File Transfer Protocol

  • GSI : Grid Security Infrastructure

  • GUID : Globally Unique IDentifer

  • JDL : Job Description Language

  • JobDB : Job Database

  • JobID : Job Identifer

  • LDAP : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

  • LFC : LCG File Catalogue

  • LFN : Logical File Name

  • MC : Monte Carlo

  • OSG : Open Science Grid

  • Panda : Production ANd Distributed Analysis

  • PFN : Physical File Name

  • ProdID : Production Identifer

  • SE : Storage Element

  • SRM : Storage Resource Manager

  • SURL : Storage URL

  • VO : Virtual Organisation

  • VOMS : Virtual Organisation Membership Service

  • WLCG : WorldWide LHC Computing Grid

  • WMS : Workload Management System

  • WN : Worker Node

  • WSDL : Web Services Description Language

  • WSRF : Web Services Resource Framework