ACLAccess Control List
CACertification Authority
CEComputing Element
CGICommon Gateway Interface
Class-adClassified Advertisement
CLICommand Line Interface
DGASDatagrid Grid Accounting Service
DNDistinguished Name
EDGEuropean Data Grid
EGEEEnabling Grids for E-sciencE
FCGI, Fast CGIFast Common Gateway Interface
FQANFully Qualified Attribute Name
FQDNFully Qualified Domain Name
GACLGrid Access Control List
GSIGrid Security Infrastructure
GUIGraphical User Interface
HLRHome Location Register
ISInformation Service
ISMInformation Super Market
Job-adClass-ad describing a job
JAJob Adapter
JCJob Controller
JDLJob Description Language
JSDLJob Submission Description Language
LBLogging and Bookkeeping
LCMAPSLocal Credential MAPping Service
LMLog Monitor
LRMSLocal Resource Management System
MPIMessage Passing Interface
NSNetwork Server
OGSAOpen Grid Services Architecture
PIDProcess Identifier
RBResource Broker
SEStorage Element
SOAService Oriented Architecture
SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol
SSLSecure Socket Layer
TQTask Queue
UDDIUniversal Description, Discovery and Integration
UIUser Interface
URIUniform Resource Identifier
URLUniform Resource Locator
VOVirtual Organisation
WMWorkload Manager
WMP, WMProxyWorkload Manager Proxy
WMSWorkload Management System
WSDLWeb Service Description Language
WS-IWeb Services Interoperability
WSRFWeb Services Resource Framework
XMLExtensible Markup Language

What is Grid

The Grid is an emerging infrastructure that will fundamentally change the way we think about - and use - computing. The basic idea is very simple, since it is about harnessing unused resources through the Internet, or a corporate Intranet, to solve major computational problems that require far more computing power and data storage than that available at any single location

EGEE Project

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission and aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid infrastructure


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