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