The Grid 2006 Conference, which features keynote talks, panel, peer reviewed papers presentations, and posters, serves as both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. This year the Conference will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference.
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Description |
Activity Area |
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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 | |