Grid Acronym Soup (GAS)
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GAA - Generic Authorization and Access
GACL - Grid ACL
GAME-XML - Genome Annotation Markup Element
GARA - General-purpose Architecture for Reservation and Allocation
GARR - Gruppo per l'Armonizzazione delle Reti della Ricerca
GASS - Globus Access to Secondary Storage
GAUDI - (LHCb Data Processing Applications Framework)
GCAS - Globus Community Authorization Service
GDMP - Grid Data Management Pilot. Also Grid Data Mirroring Package
GÉANT - Pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network
Geant4 - A toolkit for simulation of the passage of particles through matter['Géant' = French 'Giant']
GEM - Globus Executable Management
GGF - Global Grid Forum
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
GIGGLE - GIGascale Global Location Engine (EDG WP2)
GIIS - Grid Information Index Server (Globus)
Supplies collection of information which was gathered from multiple GRIS servers. Supports efficient queries against information which is spread across multiple GRIS server.
GIS - Grid Information Service
Globus - The Globus project: Grid R&D
GLORIAD - Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development
GLUE - Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment
GMA - Grid Monitoring Architecture (GGF)
GNT - Grid Network Team (UK e-Science)
GOC - Grid Operations Centre
GOS - Grid Object Specification (GGF)
GPT - Grid Packaging Technology
Grid Resource Access and Management protocol (Globus)
GRAM - Grid Resource Allocation Management
Remote allocation, reservation, monitoring, control of compute resources.
GrEnaDE - Grid Enabled Desktop Environment
GRIA - Grid Resources for Industrial Applications
GridFTP - Grid File Transfer Protocol
Data transfer
GRIDLAB - EC simulation and visualisation Grid R&D
GridPP - Grid for UK Particle Physics
GRIDS - Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support
GridStart - Cluster of European Grid projects
GRIP - Grid Resource Information Protocol (Globus)
GRIP - Grid Interoperability Project
GriPhyN - Grid Physics Network
GRIS - Grid Resource Information Service
Access to structure and state information
GRIS - Grid Resource Information Server (Globus)
GRM - GRid application Monitor (WP3, P-GRADE)
GRNET - Greek Research and Technology Network
GRRP - Grid Resource Registration Protocol (Globus)
GRS - General Resource Selector (Globus query tool, uses GRUB)
GRSE - Grid Resource Scheduling Environment (EU Datagrid)
GRUB - (Globus API - to be replaced by DUROC)
GS - Grid Scheduler, selects resources for a job
GSC - UK Grid Support Centre
GSH - Grid Service Handle (OGSA)
GSI - Grid Security Infrastructure
GSI-FTP - Grid Security Infrastructure File Transfer Protocol
GSI-SSH - Grid Security Infrastructure enabled Scure Shell
GTPL - Globus Toolkit Public License
GSP - Grid Security Protocol (Globus)
GSR - Grid Service Reference (OGSA)
GSS - Generic Security Services (Globus)
GWD - Grid Working Draft
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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.