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Acronym
Description
Activity Area
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. JRA3
AFM    
Administrative Federation Meeting     NA1 NA1
AGM    
Architecture Group Member    
JRA1
ALICE    
A Large Ion Collider Experiment    
NA4
AliEn    
Grid for Alice experiment    
JRA1
AM    
EGEE Activity Manager    
NA1
API    
Application Programming Interface    
JRA1
ARDA    
Architectural Roadmap Toward Distributed Analysis    
JRA1
ATF    
Architecture Task Force (replaced by PTF)    
JRA1
ATLAS     A Large Hadron Collider physics experiment    
NA4
AWG    
Application Working Group    
NA4
BaBar
B and B-bar experiment    
NA4
 BAR    
Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation    
JRA4
 BCU    
Biocomputing Unit    
 NA4
 BI    
Bio Informatics    
NA4
BMI    
Bio Medical Informatics    
NA4
CA    
Certificate Authorities or Consortium Agreement    
GEN/NA1
CB    
Collaboration Board    
NA1
CC Cost Claims    
NA!1
 CIC Core Infrastructure Centre    
SA1 
CM Cluster Manager    
JRA1
CMS    
Compact Muon Solenoid    
NA4
CVS    
Concurrent Versions System    
JRA1
CyGRID    
Cyprus Grid    
GEN
D0        
DØ Experiment    
NA4
DAGS     Directed Acyclic GraphS (Workflow software from CONDOR project)    
JRA1 
DAIS    
Data Access and Integration Services    
JRA1
DataGrid    
European DataGrid Project    
GEN
DCS    
Dynamic Connectivity Service    
GEN
DEISA      Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications    
GEN
diffserv   Differentiated Services  JRA4
DoS Denial of Service    
JRA3
EAC External Advisory Committee 
NA1
EC European Commission   
GEN
EDG European DataGrid Project    
GEN
EDMS
Engineering Data Management Service (a Document Management tool)   
NA1
EELA Extending EGEE to Latin America    
NA1
EGAAP 
EGEE Generic Application Advisory Panel    
NA4
EGEE 
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE    
GEN
eIRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group    
GEN
EMBnet
European Molecular Biology network       GEN
EMT Engineering Management Team    
JRA1
ENOC EGEE Network Operation Centre       NA1
EO
Earth observation    
NA4
ERA European Research Area    
GEN
ESR
Earth Science Research    
GEN
EU European Union    
GEN 
EUGridPMA
European Grid authentication policy management authority for e-science       GEN
FR 
Federation representative
NA1 
FTE
Full Time Equivalent    
NA1
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions    
NA2
GAE 
High Energy Physics (HEP) software   
GAG 
Grid Application Group       NA4
GAP 
Gender Action Plan      NA1
GE 
Gigabit-Ethernet       JRA4
GENIUS
Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission   
NA4
GGF
Global Grid Forum    
GEN
GGUS Global Grid User Support    
GEN
GigE 
Gigabit Ethernet    
GEN 
GILDA  Grid INFN Laboratory for dissemination activities    
NA4
gLITE 
Codename of the EGEE Middleware software suite developed by JRA1       JRA1
GOC 
Grid Operation Centre    
SA1
GSC
Grid Support Centre       SA1
GT 
Globus Toolkit
GEN
HEP 
High Energy Physics - The link will take you to the Cern homepage    
NA4
HepCAL 
HEP Application Grid requirements   
NA4
HepCALII
HEP Application Grid requirements    
NA4
I3
Integrated Infrastructures Initiative      GEN
IAG
Israeli Academic Grid 
GEN 
ISO 9001
International Organization for Standardization: Quality assurance normalization    
JRA2
IST  Information Society Technologies       GEN
IPv6
Internet Protocol Version 6   
JRA1
EGEE Middleware Re-engineering and Integration activity       JRA1
JRA2 
EGEE Quality Assurance activity    
JRA2
JRA3
EGEE Security activity       JRA3
JRA4
EGEE Network Services development activity    
JRA4
JSPG
Joint Security Policy Group       JRA3
L & B
Logging and Bookkeeping software       GEN
LCG
LHC Computing Grid       NA4
LHC 
Large Hadron Collider       NA4
LHcb
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment    
NA4
MPI 
Message Passing Interface software    
GEN 
MoU 
Memorandum of Understanding    
NA1
MW Middleware    
JRA1
NA1
EGEE Project Management Activity       NA1
NA2
EGEE Dissemination and Outreach activity    
NA2
NA3 
EGEE User Training and Induction activity       NA3
NA4
EGEE application identification and support activity      NA4
NA5 
EGEE International Cooperation activity    
NA5
NEG
Northern European Grid       GEN 
NOC Network Operation Centre 
SA2 
NPM 
Network Performance Monitoring    
JRA4
OAG 
Operation Advisory Group    
SA1
OGSA Open Grid Service Architecture    
JRA1
OGSI
Open Grid Service Infrastructure       JRA1
OMC 
Operation Management Centre    
SA1 
OMII 
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute       JRA1
OSG
Open Science Grid (EGEE's sister project in the US) 
GEN 
OSI  Open Source Initiative 
GEN 
PBS  Product breakdown structure  
NA1 
PD  The EGEE Project Director, Mr. Robert Jones    
NA1 
PDG Protein Design Group    
NA4 
PEB  Project Execution Board    
NA1 
PIC Policy and International Cooperation    
NA5 
PKI Public Key Infrastructure    
JRA3
PM  Person Month or Project Month   
NA1 
PMA Policy Management Authority    
JRA3 
PMB Project Management Board    
NA1 
PO  Project Office   
NA1 
POOL  High Energy Physics (HEP) software       NA4
PPT
PPT     Project management tool for project tracking and reporting    
NA1
PR EU Periodic Reports    
NA1 
PR  Public Relations    
NA2 
PROOF  High Energy Physics (HEP) software       NA4
PTD
Project Technical Director      NA1
PTF
Project Technical Forum    
NA1
QA  Quality Assurance       JRA2
QAG
Quality Group       JRA2
QAM
Quality Assurance Management       JRA2
QAR  Quality Assurance Representative       JRA2
QI  Quality Indicator       JRA2
QoS
Quality Of Services       JRA2
QR EU Quarterly Report       NA1 
RB  Resource Broker       JRA1
RBAC
Rules Based Access Control    
JRA3
RC  Resource Centre       SA1
RDIG
Russian Data Intensive Grid    
GEN 
RLS
Replica Location Service       JRA1
RM     Release Manager; The Release Manager system allows the checkout/build/compile/test process to be performed with a few commands.
JRA1
ROC  Regional Operation Centre   
SA1 
RoGRID
Romanian GRID    
GEN
RTAG
Requirements Technical Assessment Group, follow the link for the final report    
JRA1
SA1
EGEE European Grid Support, Operation and Management activity    
SA1
SA2 EGEE Network Resource Provision activity    
SA2 
SCM 
Software Configuration Management   
JRA1
SE
Storage element      JRA1
SEAL
High Energy Physics (HEP) software   
NA4
SEE
South East Europe    
GEN 
SEE-GRID
South Eastern European Grid-Enabled e-Infrastructure Development       GEN 
SEEREN
South East European Research Networking    
GEN 
SGM 
Security Group Member       JRA1
SIMBA  Cern Mailing list management tool    
JRA1
SLA
Service Level Agreement    
JRA2
SLR
Service Level Request      SA2 
SLS 
Service Level Specification
SA2 
SOA  Service Oriented Architecture       JRA1
SPI
Cern Software Process Infrastructure       JRA1
SRM Storage Research Manager    
GEN 
SSA  Specific Support Action    
NA5 
SW  Software       JRA1
SweGrid 
Swedish National Grid resource for science and research    
GEN 
TA  Technical Annex      NA1 
TAB
Technical Advisory Board    
NA1
TD  Technical Director       NA1
TNLC Technical Network Liaison Committee    
JRA3 
TT  Trouble Ticket    
GEN
UML Unified Modelling Language    
JRA1
Verification and Validation activity
JRA2 
VDT 
Virtual Data Toolkit    
NA5
VO
Virtual Organisation (aka Application Community) is a geographically independant group of collaborating scientists.       NA4
VOMS  VO Management Service    
JRA3
WBS 
Work Breakdown Structure, a project management technique to break the task into manageable chunks.    
NA1
WCIT 
World Congress on Information Technology    
GEN 
WLM 
Work Load Management Software     GEN 
WN  Worker Node     GEN  GEN
WS Web Server    
JRA1
WSRF  Web Services Resource Framework  
     
     

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