EGEE Glossary

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
W	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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