Abbreviations and Acronyms

ACL

Access Control List

API

Application Programming Interface

BDII

Berkeley Database Information Index

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

CA

Certification Authority

CD

Compact Disc

CE

Computing Element

DIT

Directory Information Tree

DN

Distinguish Name

DNS

Domain Name Server

EDG

European DataGrid?

EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FUSE

File System in User Space

GIIS

Grid Index Information Server

GLUE

Grid Laboratory for a Uniform Environment

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GridFTP?

Grid File Transfer Protocol

GRIS

Grid Resource Information Server

GSI

Grid Security Infrastructure

GUID

Grid Unique Identifier

II

Information Index

IP

Internet Protocol

IS

Information Service

JDL

Job Description Language

JRE

Java Runtime Environment

LB

Logging and Bookkeeping

LCG

LHC Computing Grid Project

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LFC

LCG File Catalog

LFN

Logical File Name

LHC

Large Hadron Collider

LRC

Local Replica Catalog

LRMS

Local Resource Management System

MDS

Monitoring and Discovery Service

MPI

Message Passing Interface

OS

Operating System

RAM

Random Access Memory

RB

Resource Broker

RFIO

Remote File Input/Output

R-GMA

Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture

RLI

Replica Location Index

RLS

Replica Location Server

RMC

Replica Metadata Catalog

RPM

RedHat? Package Manager

SE

Storage Element

SRM

Storage Resource Manager

SURL

Storage URL

UI

User Interface

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UUID

Universally Unique ID

VFS

Virtual File System

VO

Virtual Organization

WMS

Workload Management System

WN

Worker Node