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ACRONYMS
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EXPLANATION
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AAA
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Authentication
Authorization Accounting
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ACL |
Access Control List |
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AFC
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Administrative
Federation Committee
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AFM
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Administrative
Federation Meeting
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AGM
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Architecture
Group Member
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ALICE
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LHC
physic experiment
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AliEn
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Grid
for Alice experiment
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AM
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Activity
Manager
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APEL
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EGEE/LCG
Accounting Application
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API
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Application
Programming Interface
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ARDA
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Architectural
Roadmap Toward Distributed Analysis
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ATF
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Architecture
Task Force (replaced by PTF)
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ATLAS
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LHC
physic experiment
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AWG
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Application
Working Group
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B
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BaBar
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B
and B-bar experiment
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BAR
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Bandwidth
Allocation and Reservation
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BCU
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Biocomputing
Unit
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BDII
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Berkeley
Database Information Index
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BI
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Bio
Informatics
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BioMed
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Bio
Medical VO
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BMI
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Bio
Medical Informatics
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CA
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Certification
Authority
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CA
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Consortium
Agreement
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CB
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Collaboration
Board
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CC
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Cost
Claims
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CDF
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Collider
Detector Experiment at Fermilab
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CE
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Compute
Element
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CERN
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European
Organisation for Nuclear Research
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CHEP
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Computing
in High Energy Physics
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CIC
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Core
Infrastructure Centrer
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CIS
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Core
Infrastructure Services
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CM
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Cluster
Manager
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CMMi |
Capability
Maturity Model Integration |
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CMS
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LHC
physic experiment
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COD
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CIC-on-duty
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Compass
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Physics
experiment at CERN
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CRL |
Certificat Revocation List |
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CT |
Certification and Testing Team |
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CVS
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Concurrent
Versions System
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CyGRID
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Cyprus
Grid
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D-CH
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German-Swiss
Federation
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D0
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DØ
Experiment
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DAGS
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Directed
Acyclic GraphS (work-flow software from CONDOR
project)
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DAIS
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Data
Access and Integration Services
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DataGrid
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European
DataGrid
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DCS
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Dynamic
connectivity Service
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DEISA
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Distributed
European Infrastructure for Supercomputing
Aplications
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diffserv
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differentiated
services
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DN |
Distinguished Name |
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DoS
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Denial
of Service
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DPM
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Disk
Pool Manager
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Dteam
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Deployment
team
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e-IRGSP
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e-Infrastructure
Reflection Group Support Project
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EAC
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External
Advisory Committee
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EC
|
European
Commission
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EDG
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European
DataGrid
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EDMS
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Engineering
Data Management Service (Cern Document
Management tool)
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EELA
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Extending
EGEE to Latin America
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EGAAP
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EGEE
Generic Application Advisory Panel
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EGEE
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Enabling
Grids for E-sciencE
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EGO
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European
Grid Organisation
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eIRG
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e-Infrastructure
Reflection group
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EIS
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Experiment
Integration Structure
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EL
|
Enterprise
Linux
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EMBnet
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European
Molecular Biology network
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EMT
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Engineering
Management Team
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| ENOC |
EGEE
Network Operation
Centre
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EO
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Earth
observation
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ERA
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European
Research Area
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ESC
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EGEE
Support Committee
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ESR
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Earth
Science research
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ESUS
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Experiment
Specific User Support
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ETICS |
eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of
Software |
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EU
|
European
Union
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EUGridPMA
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European
Grid Authentication policy management authority
for e-science
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FAQ
|
Frequently
asked questions
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FCR |
Freedom of
Choice tool |
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FR
|
Federation
representative
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FR
|
French
federation
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FTE
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Full
Time Equivalent
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FTS
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File Transfer System
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FZK
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Karlsruhe
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GAE
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HEP
software
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GAG
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Grid
Application Group
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GAP
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Gender
Action Plan
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GD
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Grid
Deployment
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GE
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Gigabit-Ethernet
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GEANT
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European
Academic Network
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GENIUS
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Grid
Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User
job Submission
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GGF
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Global
Grid Forum
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GGUS
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Global
Grid User Support
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GigE
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Gigabit
Ethernet
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GIIS
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Grid
Information Index Server
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GILDA
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Grid
INFN Laboratory for dissemination activities
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gLite
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Codename
of the middleware software suite developed by
JRA1
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GN2
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Codename
for GEANT-2 (the successor to the GEANT network)
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GOC
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Grid
Operation Center
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GOCDB
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Grid
Operations Centre Database
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Grid3 |
The
Grid 3 Project in the USA |
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GridICE
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Grid
monitoring software
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GridKA
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Grid
based on Karlsruhe in Germany
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GUID |
Grid User Identifier |
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Gstat |
Grid
Statistics monitoring tool |
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GSC
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Grid
Support Center
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GST |
Grid Services Testing |
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GT
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Globus
Toolkit
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GUT |
Grid Unit Testing |
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HEP
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High
Energy Physics
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HepCAL
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HEP
Application Grid requirements
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I
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I3
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Integrated
Infrastructure Initiative
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IA64
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Instruction
Architecture-64
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IAG
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Israeli
Academy Grid
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IEEE |
Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (standardisation) |
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IF |
Industry Forum |
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ISO 9001
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International
Organization for Standardization: Quality
assurance normalization
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IST
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Information
Society Technologies
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IT
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Italian
Federation
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ITIL |
Information
Technology Infrastructure Library |
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JDL |
Job
Description Language |
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JRA
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Joint
Research Activity
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JRA1
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EGEE
Middleware Re-engineering and Integration activity
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JRA2
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EGEE
Quality Assurance activity
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JRA3
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EGEE
Security activity
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JRA4
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EGEE
Network Services development activity
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JSPG
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Joint
security policy group
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K
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KA
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Karlsruhe
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KCA |
Kerberized
Certificate Authority |
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L
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L&B
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Logging
and Bookkeeping software
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LAN |
Local Area
Network |
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LCG-0/1/2
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LHC
Computing Grid Middleware 0/1/2
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LCG |
LHC
Computing Grid |
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LDAP
|
Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol
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LFC |
LCG File
Catalog |
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LFN |
Logical File Name |
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LHC
|
Large
Hadron Collider
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LHcb
|
LHC
physic experiment
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LRC
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LCG
Resource Catalog
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M
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MDS |
Monitoring and Discovery System |
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MoU
|
Memorandum
of Understanding
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MPI
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Message
Passing Interface software
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MSS |
Mass Storage System |
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MW
|
Middleware
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MyProxy |
MyProxy
service: This service provides a credential repository so that
users can be authenticated |
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NA
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Networking
Activity
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NA1
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EGEE
Project Management activity
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NA2
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EGEE
Dissemination and Outreach activity
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NA3
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EGEE
User Training and Induction
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NA4
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EGEE
application identification and support activity
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NA5
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EGEE
International Cooperation activity
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NE
|
Northern
Europe Federation
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NEG
|
Northern
European Grid
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NGIS
|
National
Grid Initiatives
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NMI |
NSF Middleware Initiative (National
Science Foundation)
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NOC
|
Network
Operation Center
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NPM
|
Network
Performance Monitoring
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NREN
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National
Research and Education Network |
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O
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I | J
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OAG
|
Operation
Advisory Group
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OCC
|
Operations
Coordination Centre
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OGSA
|
Open
Grid Services Architecture
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OGSI
|
Open
Grid Services Infrastructure
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OMC
|
Operation
Management Center
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OMII
|
Open
Middleware Infrastructure Institute
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Oracle
|
Data
base management system
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OSCT
|
Operational
Security Coordination Team
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OSG
|
Open
Science Grid
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OSI
|
Open
Source Initiative
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P
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PBS
|
Product
breakdown structure
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PD
|
Project
Director
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PDG
|
Protein
Design Group
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PEB
|
Project
Execution Board
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PIC
|
Policy
and International Cooperation
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PKI
|
Public
Key Infrastructure
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PM
|
x
Person Month / Project Month x
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PMA
|
Policy
Management Authority
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PMB
|
Project
Management Board
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PO
|
Project
Office
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POOL
|
HEP
software
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PPS
|
Pre-Production Service
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PPT
|
Project
Progress Tracking tool
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PR
|
EU
Periodic Reports
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PR
|
Public
Relations
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PROOF
|
HEP
software
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PS |
Production Service Environment |
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PTD
|
Project
Technical Director
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PTF
|
Project
Technical Forum
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Q
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I | J
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QA
|
Quality
Assurance
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QAG
|
Quality
Assurance Group
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QAM
|
Quality
Assurance Management
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QAR
|
Quality
Assurance Representative
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QI
|
Quality
Indicator
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QoS
|
Quality
Of Services
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QR
|
EU
Quarterly Report
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QUATTOR
|
Optimisation
Toolkit for Optimising Resources
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R
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A
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| D
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E | F
| G
| H
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I | J
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L | M
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| U
| V
| W
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X | Y
| Z
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R-GMA
|
Relational-Grid
Monitoring Architecture
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RAID
|
Redundant
array of inexpensive disks
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RB
|
Resource
Broker
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RBAC
|
Rules
Based Access Control
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RC
|
Resource
Center
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RDIG
|
Russian
Data Intensive Grid
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Remedy
|
Problem
tracking software for helpdesks
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RH
|
Red
Hat
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RLS
|
Replica
Location Service
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RM
|
Release
Manager
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ROC
|
Regional
Operation Center
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RoGRID
|
Romanian
GRID
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RPM |
RPM package
Manager |
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RSS
|
Really
Simple Syndication
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RTAG
|
Requirements
Technical Assessment Group
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RU
|
Russian
federation
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S
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A
| B
| C
| D
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E | F
| G
| H
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I | J
| K
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L | M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
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X | Y
| Z
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SA
|
Specific
Service Activity
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SA1
|
EGEE
European Grid Support, Operation and Management
activity
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SA2
|
EGEE
Network Resource Provision activity
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SA3 |
Integration &
Testing activity within EGEE II |
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SCG
|
Security
Coordination Group
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SCM
|
Software
Configuration Management
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SE
|
Storage
Element
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SEAL
|
HEP
software
|
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SEE
|
South
East Europe
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SEEGRID
|
South
East Grid e-Infrastructure Development
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SEEREN
|
South
East European Research Networking
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SFT
|
Site
Functional Test
|
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SGM
|
Security
Group Member
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SIMBA
|
Cern
Mailing list management tool
|
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SIPS |
Site Integrated Proxy Services |
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SL
|
Scientific
Linux
|
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SLA
|
Service
Level Agreement
|
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SLOC |
Software
Lines Of Code (number of) |
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SLR
|
Service
Level Request
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SLS
|
Service
Level Specification
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SM
|
Software
manager
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SOA
|
Service
Oriented Architecture
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SPI
|
Cern
Software Process Infrastructure
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SRB |
Storage Resource Broker |
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SRM
|
Storage
Research Manager
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SSA
|
Special
Support Action
|
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SU
|
Support
unit
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SURL |
Storage Uniform Resource Location |
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SuSE |
Linux distribution |
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SW
|
Software
|
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SW
|
South
West Europe Federation
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SweGrid
|
Swedish
national Grid resource for science and research
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T
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A
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| H
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I | J
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| U
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| W
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X | Y
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TA
|
Technical
Annex
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TAB
|
Technical
Advisory Board
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TCG
|
Technical
Coordination Group
|
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TD
|
Technical
Director
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TNLC
|
Technical
Network Liaison Committee
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TPM |
Ticket Process Management |
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TT |
Trouble
Ticket |
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U
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A
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X | Y
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UF |
Users Forum |
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UIG
|
User
Information Group
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UK-I
|
UK-Ireland
federation
|
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UML
|
Unified
Modelling Language
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UoW |
University of
Wisconsin/Madison |
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US
|
United
States of America
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V
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A
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| D
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| G
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| T
| U
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| W
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X | Y
| Z
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VV
|
Verification
and Validation activity
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VDT
|
Virtual
Data Toolkit
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VO
|
Virtual
Organization
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VOMS
|
VO
Management Service
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W
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A
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| C
| D
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| G
| H
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I | J
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| Q
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| U
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| W
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X | Y
| Z
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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WBS
|
Work
breakdown structure
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WCIT
|
World
Congress on Information Technology
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WLM |
WorkLoad Management software |
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WMS
|
Workload
Management System
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WN
|
Worker
Node
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WS
|
Web
Server
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WSRF
|
Web
Services Resource Framework
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X
|
A
| B
| C
| D
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E | F
| G
| H
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I | J
| K
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L | M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
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X | Y
| Z
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XML
|
eXtensible
Markup Language
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|
Y
|
A
| B
| C
| D
|
E | F
| G
| H
|
I | J
| K
|
L | M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
|
X | Y
| Z
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YAIM
|
Yet
Another Installation Method
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|
Z
|
A
| B
| C
| D
|
E | F
| G
| H
|
I | J
| K
|
L | M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
|
X | Y
| Z
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