| ACL | Access Control List |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CE | Computing Element |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| Class-ad | Classified Advertisement |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| DGAS | Datagrid Grid Accounting Service |
| DN | Distinguished Name |
| EDG | European Data Grid |
| EGEE | Enabling Grids for E-sciencE |
| FCGI, Fast CGI | Fast Common Gateway Interface |
| FQAN | Fully Qualified Attribute Name |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
| GACL | Grid Access Control List |
| GSI | Grid Security Infrastructure |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HLR | Home Location Register |
| IS | Information Service |
| ISM | Information Super Market |
| Job-ad | Class-ad describing a job |
| JA | Job Adapter |
| JC | Job Controller |
| JDL | Job Description Language |
| JSDL | Job Submission Description Language |
| LB | Logging and Bookkeeping |
| LCMAPS | Local Credential MAPping Service |
| LM | Log Monitor |
| LRMS | Local Resource Management System |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| NS | Network Server |
| OGSA | Open Grid Services Architecture |
| PID | Process Identifier |
| RB | Resource Broker |
| SE | Storage Element |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
| TQ | Task Queue |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration |
| UI | User Interface |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| VO | Virtual Organisation |
| WM | Workload Manager |
| WMP, WMProxy | Workload Manager Proxy |
| WMS | Workload Management System |
| WSDL | Web Service Description Language |
| WS-I | Web Services Interoperability |
| WSRF | Web Services Resource Framework |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |