GridDic - the Grid computing Glossary
Welcome the IT-Tude.com Grid computing glossary, a dictionary with definitions on popular terms and common abbreviations used in distributed computing - from AAI to XEAI!
A B C D E F G I H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- AAI
- Access Control
- Access Control Information
- Access Control List (ACL)
- AccessGrid
- Access Right
- Accounting
- Activation Service
- Alchemi
- AMGA
- ApGrid
- Application Level Gateway
- Application server
- Artefact
- ASP
- Asserting Party (SAML)
- Asynchronous
- Attribute Service
- Audit Guard (PEP)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Authorization Decision
- Availability (Metric)
B
C
- Capability
- Certificate Authority (CA)
- Circuit Level Gateway
- Claim
- Client
- Cloud computing
- Cluster
- Community Grid
- CoG Kit
- Component
- Computing Element (CE)
- Condor
- Condor-G
- Control
- Conversation
- Coordination Context
- Coordination Protocol
- Coordination Service
- Coordination Type
- Coordinator
- CORDIS
- Credential
- Cross Enterprise Application Integration (XEAI)
- CTR
- Customer
D
- Data Grid
- Database Federation
- Data Homogenisation
- Data Management
- DataMiningGrid
- Data Source
- Data Source Publisher
- Data Synchronisation
- Data Warehousing
- Decision Request
- DEGREE
- DEISA
- Delivery Policy
- Design Pattern
- DFN
- D-Grid
- Digest
- Digital Signature
- Direct Brokered Trust
- Direct Trust
- Discovery
- Discovery Service
- Distributed computing
- Distinguished Name
E
- EAI
- EGEE
- End Point
- End Point Reference (EPR)
- Enforcement Domain
- Engine Frame
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Enterprise Grid
- ESB
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
F
G
- Ganglia
- Gateway
- GILDA
- General Public License (GPL)
- gLite
- Globus
- GRACE
- GRAM
- GRIA
- GridFTP
- GridShib
- GridSim
- GridSphere
- Grid Computing
- Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
- GT4
H
I
- ICT
- Identity Mapping
- Identity Provider
- Indirect Brokered Trust
- Initial SOAP Sender
- Interceptor
- Interceptor Pool
- Intermediary Service
- iSGTW
- IST
- ISV
J
L
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- License Client
- License Management Software
- License Server
- Load Sharing Facility (LSF)
- Logical file names
- Loose Coupling
- LSP
M
- Manageable Service
- Managed Services Provider
- Management
- Management Capability
- Management Interface
- Management Policy
- Management Semantics
- Master
- Message Correlation
- Message Exchange Pattern (MEP)
- Message Level Enforcement (SOAP)
- Message Reliability
- Message Transport
- Metadata
- Metadata catalogue
- Middleware
- Monitoring
N
- Named Attribute
- Named User Licence
- Negotiation
- NESSI
- Network Application Platform (NAP)
- NextGRID
- Node
- Node-locked Licence
- Non-Repudiation
- NorduGrid
O
- OASIS
- ObjectWeb
- Observer
- Object Management Group
- OGSA
- OGSA-DAI
- On Demand Business
- OMII-Europe
- OMII-UK
- Object-oriented programming
- Open Grid (Service Oriented Knowledge Utility))
- Open Grid Forum (OGF)
- Open Science Grid (OSG)
- OurGrid Community
P
- Parallel Computing
- Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
- Participant
- Partner Grid
- Peer to Peer
- Permission Guard (PEP)
- P-GRADE
- Physical File Name
- PKI
- Policy
- Policy Administration Point (PAP)
- Policy Decision Point (PDP)
- Policy Guard (PEP)
- Policy Information Point (PIP)
- Policy Service
- Portable Batch System (PBS)
- Portlet
- Primary-Secondary Replicator
- Principal
- Privacy Policy
- Proof-Of-Possession Token
- Provider
- Proxy
- Publication
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Q
R
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Realm
- Reference Architecture
- Registration Service
- Registry
- Re-negotiation
- Replica
- Replication
- Repository
- Requester
- Resource Provider
- Response Time (Metric)
S
- SaaP
- SaaS
- SaaS Business Model
- SCM
- Security Administration
- Security Architecture
- Security Assertion
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- Security Auditing
- Security Domain
- Security Event
- SecurityEventListener
- Security Mechanism
- Security Model
- Security Monitor
- Security Observer
- Security Policy
- Security Property
- Security Service
- Security Subject
- Security Token Service (STS)
- Sender Authentication
- Service
- Service Broker
- Service Description
- Service Instance
- Service Interface
- Service Intermediary
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service Provider
- Service Reporting
- Service Role
- Service Semantics
- Signature
- Signature Validation
- Signed Security Token
- Siloed Grid
- Single Sign On (SSO)
- SLA
- Slave
- SLO
- SME
- SO
- SOAP
- SOCKS
- Software as a Product
- Software as a Service
- SOKU
- SQL
- SQL Trigger
- SSO
- State
- Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
- Storage system types
- Subcluster
- Submit machine
- Subscriber
- Supply Chain Management
- Synchronous
T
- Three-tier Architecture
- Throughput (Metric)
- Transaction
- Transport Service
- Trigger
- Trust
- Trust Domain
- Trust Realm
U
V
- Validation Service
- Virtual Hosting Environment (VHE)
- VHE Gateway
- Virtual Organisation (VO)
- VO Creation
- VO Life Cycle
- VO Management
- VO Membership Service (VOMS)
- VO Member
- VO Participant
- VO Partner
W
- W3C
- Web Application
- Web Component
- Web Container
- WebDAV
- Web Portal
- Web Service
- WS-I Web Services Interoperability
- Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
- WSDL
- WS-GRAM
X
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News & Announcements
Cloudscape IV - Advances in Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards Press Release: OPTIMIS - Optimisation of Cloud services Cloud4SOA’s interoperability workshop at CloudCom2011 (30 Nov. 2011, Athens) IEEE CloudCom2011 (29 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2011, Athens) ALERT Newsletter - September 2011
