| AAA |
Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting; Authentication is proving who you are, Authorization is defining what you are allowed (and not allowed) to do. Accounting is keeping track of what you do. |
| AFM |
Administrative Federation Meeting |
| AGM |
Architecture Group Member |
| ALICE |
A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
| AliEn |
Grid for Alice experiment |
| AM |
EGEE Activity Manager |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| ARDA |
Architectural Roadmap Toward Distributed Analysis |
| ATF |
Architecture Task Force (replaced by PTF) |
| ATLAS |
A Large Hadron Collider physics experiment |
| AWG |
Application Working Group |
| BaBar |
B and B-bar experiment |
| BAR |
Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation |
| BCU |
Biocomputing Unit |
| BI |
Bio Informatics |
| BMI |
Bio Medical Informatics |
| CA |
Certificate Authorities or Consortium Agreement |
| CB |
Collaboration Board |
| CC |
Cost Claims |
| CIC |
Core Infrastructure Centre |
| CM |
Cluster Manager |
| CMS |
Compact Muon Solenoid |
| CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
| CyGRID |
Cyprus Grid |
| D0 |
DØ Experiment |
| DAGS |
Directed Acyclic GraphS (Workflow software from CONDOR project) |
| DAIS |
Data Access and Integration Services |
| DataGrid |
European DataGrid Project |
| DCS |
Dynamic Connectivity Service |
| DEISA |
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications |
| diffserv |
Differentiated Services |
| DoS |
Denial of Service |
| EAC |
External Advisory Committee |
| EC |
European Commission |
| EDG |
European DataGrid Project |
| EDMS |
Engineering Data Management Service (a Document Management tool) |
| EELA |
Extending EGEE to Latin America |
| EGAAP |
EGEE Generic Application Advisory Panel |
| EGEE |
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE |
| eIRG |
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group |
| EMBnet |
European Molecular Biology network |
| EMT |
Engineering Management Team |
| ENOC |
EGEE Network Operation Centre |
| EO |
Earth observation |
| ERA |
European Research Area |
| ESR |
Earth Science Research |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUGridPMA |
European Grid authentication policy management authority for e-science |
| FR |
Federation representative |
| FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
| FAQs |
Frequently Asked Questions |
| GAE |
High Energy Physics (HEP) software |
| GAG |
Grid Application Group |
| GAP |
Gender Action Plan |
| GE |
Gigabit-Ethernet |
| GENIUS |
Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission |
| GGF |
Global Grid Forum |
| GGUS |
Global Grid User Support |
| GigE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
| GILDA |
Grid INFN Laboratory for dissemination activities |
| gLITE |
Codename of the EGEE Middleware software suite developed by JRA1 |
| GOC |
Grid Operation Centre |
| GSC |
Grid Support Centre |
| GT |
Globus Toolkit |
| HEP |
High Energy Physics - The link will take you to the Cern homepage |
| HepCAL |
HEP Application Grid requirements |
| HepCALII |
HEP Application Grid requirements |
| I3 |
Integrated Infrastructures Initiative |
| IAG |
Israeli Academic Grid |
| ISO 9001 |
International Organization for Standardization: Quality assurance normalization |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| IPv6 |
Internet Protocol Version 6 |
| JRA1 |
EGEE Middleware Re-engineering and Integration activity |
| JRA2 |
EGEE Quality Assurance activity |
| JRA3 |
EGEE Security activity |
| JRA4 |
EGEE Network Services development activity |
| JSPG |
Joint Security Policy Group |
| L & B |
Logging and Bookkeeping software |
| LCG |
LHC Computing Grid |
| LHC |
Large Hadron Collider |
| LHcb |
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface software |
| MoU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MW |
Middleware |
JRA1 |
| NA1 |
EGEE Project Management Activity |
| NA2 |
EGEE Dissemination and Outreach activity |
| NA3 |
EGEE User Training and Induction activity |
| NA4 |
EGEE application identification and support activity |
| NA5 |
EGEE International Cooperation activity |
| NEG |
Northern European Grid |
| NOC |
Network Operation Centre |
| NPM |
Network Performance Monitoring |
| OAG |
Operation Advisory Group |
| OGSA |
Open Grid Service Architecture |
| OGSI |
Open Grid Service Infrastructure |
| OMC |
Operation Management Centre |
| OMII |
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute |
| OSG |
Open Science Grid (EGEE's sister project in the US) |
| OSI |
Open Source Initiative |
| PBS |
Product breakdown structure |
| PD |
The EGEE Project Director, Mr. Robert Jones |
| PDG |
Protein Design Group |
| PEB |
Project Execution Board |
| PIC |
Policy and International Cooperation |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PM |
Person Month or Project Month |
| PMA |
Policy Management Authority |
| PMB |
Project Management Board |
| PO |
Project Office |
| POOL |
High Energy Physics (HEP) software |
| PPT |
Project management tool for project tracking and reporting |
| PR |
EU Periodic Reports |
| PR |
Public Relations |
| PROOF |
High Energy Physics (HEP) software |
| PTD |
Project Technical Director |
| PTF |
Project Technical Forum |
| QA |
Quality Assurance |
| QAG |
Quality Group |
| QAM |
Quality Assurance Management |
| QAR |
Quality Assurance Representative |
| QI |
Quality Indicator |
| QoS |
Quality Of Services |
| QR |
EU Quarterly Report |
| RB |
Resource Broker |
| RBAC |
Rules Based Access Control |
| RC |
Resource Centre |
| RDIG |
Russian Data Intensive Grid |
| RLS |
Replica Location Service |
| RM |
Release Manager; The Release Manager system allows the checkout/build/compile/test process to be performed with a few commands. |
| ROC |
Regional Operation Centre |
| RoGRID |
Romanian GRID |
| RTAG |
Requirements Technical Assessment Group, follow the link for the final report |
| SA1 |
EGEE European Grid Support, Operation and Management activity |
| SA2 |
EGEE Network Resource Provision activity |
| SCM |
Software Configuration Management |
| SE |
Storage element |
| SEAL |
High Energy Physics (HEP) software |
| SEE |
South East Europe |
| SEE-GRID |
South Eastern European Grid-Enabled e-Infrastructure Development |
| SEEREN |
South East European Research Networking |
| SGM |
Security Group Member |
| SIMBA |
Cern Mailing list management tool |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLR |
Service Level Request |
| SLS |
Service Level Specification |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SPI |
Cern Software Process Infrastructure |
| SRM |
Storage Research Manager |
| SSA |
Specific Support Action |
| SW |
Software |
| SweGrid |
Swedish National Grid resource for science and research |
| TA |
Technical Annex |
| TAB |
Technical Advisory Board |
| TD |
Technical Director |
| TNLC |
Technical Network Liaison Committee |
| TT |
Trouble Ticket |
| UML |
Unified Modelling Language |
| VV |
Verification and Validation activity |
| VDT |
Virtual Data Toolkit |
| VO |
Virtual Organisation (aka Application Community) is a geographically independant group of collaborating scientists. |
| VOMS |
VO Management Service |
| WBS |
Work Breakdown Structure, a project management technique to break the task into manageable chunks. |
| WCIT |
World Congress on Information Technology |
| WLM |
Work Load Management Software |
| WN |
Worker Node |
| WS |
Web Server |
| WSRF |
Web Services Resource Framework |
