Grid Acronym Soup (GAS)
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The CA (Certification Authority) is a trusted body that confirms the validity and identity of entities involved in public key exchange. As the user’s digital certificate is the only means by which entities may trust each other, the CA must be officially recognized. This is typically done by a government body authorizing a CA prior to its instigation.
CACR - Center for Advanced Computing Research
In 1995, the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) was established to ensure that Caltech and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be at the forefront of computational science and engineering (CS&E). CS&E is the practice of computer-based modeling for the study of scientific phenomena and engineering designs, and typically involves a multidisciplinary investigation of interactions among the application, solution algorithms, computer architecture, and system software.
CAS - Community Authorisation Service
Building on the Globus Toolkit™ Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), CAS allows resource providers to specify course-grained access control policies in terms of communities as a whole, delegating fine-grained access control policy management to the community itself. Resource providers maintain ultimate authority over their resources but are spared day-to-day policy administration tasks (e.g. adding and deleting users, modifying user privileges).
CASP - Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction
CASP experiments aim at establishing the current state of the art in protein structure prediction, identifying what progress has been made, and highlighting where future effort may be most productively focused.
Castor - DB access for Java, Apache project
Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.
CE - Computing Element
A Grid-enabled computing resource.
CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
CERN, the high-energy particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is where, in 1991, a researcher, Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, essentially invented the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee is credited with developing the idea of combining hypertext with the speed of today's electronic networks. Working with a small team, he developed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on which the Web is based.
CERT - Computer Emergency Readiness Team [Now called CSIRT]
When computer security incidents occur, organizations must respond quickly and effectively. The faster an organization recognizes, analyzes, and responds to an incident, the better it can limit damage and lesson recovery costs. Establishing a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) is a great way to provide this rapid response capability as well as help prevent future incidents.
CERT/CC - CERT Coordination Center
CERT (pronounced SUHRT), officially called the CERT Coordination Center, is the Internet's official emergency team. CERT (which stands for "Computer Emergency Readiness Team") was formed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in November 1988 after the Internet was assaulted in the Internet worm incident15-aug-08ervice incidents, providing alerts and incident-handling and avoidance guidelines. CERT also conducts an ongoing public awareness campaign and engages in research aimed at improving security systems.
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
The common gateway interface (CGI) is a standard way for a Web server to pass a Web user's request to an application program and to receive data back to forward to the user.
Channel - uPortal equivalent of Jetspeed's "portlet"
CHEF - CompreCensive collaborativE Framework
A set of tools (portlets) and database currently using Jetspeed.
CLF - Central Laser Facility
The ISIS neutron spallation neutron source is located at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratoryof the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils. The CLF Facility was established in 1977 to provide lasers and associated instrumentation for use by UK university researchers. EPSRC-supported activity at the facility includes research using the two large laser installations, Vulcan and Titania, and a number of table-top systems in the Lasers for Science Facility for research in physics, chemistry, and materials science.
CLI - Command Line Interface
A CLI (command line interface) is a user interface to a computer's operating system or an application in which the user responds to a visual prompt by typing in a command on a specified line, receives a response back from the system, and then enters another command, and so forth.
CLRC - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
The Central Laboratory of the Research Councils is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research support organisations. Its facilities and expertise support the work of more than 12000 scientists and engineers from around the world, both in universities and in industry. The major EPSRC-supported facilities provided by CLRC at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and Daresbury Laboratory include the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS), ISIS Neutron Spallation Source, Central Laser Facility (CLF), Central Computing Facility, the Central Microstructure Facility (CMF), Research Unit for Surfaces, Transforms & Interfaces (RUSTI) and Medium Energy Ion Source (MEIS).
CMF - Central Microstructure Facility
The CMF is located at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils. The Facility provides microfabrication services to universities and industry, producing photomasks, reticles, wafers and other precision artefacts, made using the latest electron beam, excimer laser and X-ray technologies with feature sizes from millimetres to 50 nanometres.
CML - Chemical Markup Language
CMPT - Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology
This is an independent research organisation in marine and petroleum engineering which is based at Heriot-Watt University. CMPT has superseded the Marine Technology Directorate which was, until 1997, responsible for the administration of the EPSRC research and training programme in marine technology.
CMS - Compact Muon Solenoid (LHC experiment)
CMT - Configuration Management Tool
CNRS - Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
CoAKTinG - Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
CoG - Commodity Grid toolkit
Condor-G is the marriage of technologies from the Condor project and the Globus project.
Content management system - often a database sitting behind a portal
Course management system - part of a MLE
Content Packaging
Facilitates interchange of content between different learning systems by providing a way to package learning information and meta-data
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CQeSS - Collaboration for Quantitative e-Social Science (Lancaster)
CRL - Certificate Revocation List
Digital Certificates are only valid for a specified period; if, after this period, they are not renewed by the owner they are revoked. Revocation may also be applied to certificates that may have been compromised. All revoked certificates are listed and may be viewed through the CA (Certification Authorities) web site. These lists are issued on a regular basis by the CA, and prior to a dialog being established between end parties this list should be checked to ensure the integrity of the parties involved in the communication.
CrossGrid - European Commission Grid R&D program
CS - Computer Science
CSF - Central Simulation Facility
CSIRT - Computer Security Incident Response Team
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CVE - Collaborative Virtual Environment
CVS - Concurrent Versions System
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Acknowledgments:
Some original material is from the GridPP Web site maintained by Joe Foster, University of Manchester. Additions by Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Adrian Fish and Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina.