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P2P - Middleware enabling Peer to Peer communications

PACMAN - PACkage MANager (iVDGL)

PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module

PBS - Portable Batch System

PDF - Portable Document Format

PDU - Protocol Data Unit (X.500, LDAP)

PFS - Pluggable File System

The Pluggable File System (PFS) is a tool for attaching old applications to new storage systems. PFS presents new storage systems as file system entries.

PGP - Pretty Good Privacy

Pretty Good Privacy is a public key encryption application that allows secure file and message exchange.

P-GRADE - Professional GRAphical parallel programming Environment (EU DataGrid WP3)

PHI-BLAST - Pattern Hit Initiated BLAST

PIG - The Personal Interface to the AccessGrid

PKI - Public Key Infrastructure

PKCS12 - Public Key Cryptography Standard 12

PKCS 12 defines the standard for the storage of keys and certificates.

PM9 - Project Month 9 [ = September 2001] (EU Data Grid)

PMB - Project Management Board (EU Data Grid)

PNG - Portable Network Format

POL-34 - Polish NREN

PoP - Point of Presence

Portlet - "window" in a portal.

PPARC - Portable Network Format

PPARC is one of the seven UK government Research Councils The PPARC is the main UK funding agency in theoretical and experimental research into elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature; planetary and solar research including space physics; and astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. to improve health by promoting research into all areas of medical and related science. It supports research and training through its research establishments, through grants to individual scientists and through support for post graduate students.

PPDG - Particle Physics Data Grid

PROVE - [?] Application monitoring visualiser (WP3, P-GRADE)

PSE - Problem Solving Environment: Workload management systems + collaboration frameworks

PSI-BLAST - Position Specific Iterative BLAST

PSSM - Position Specific Scoring Matrix

PTB - Project Technical Board (EU Data Grid)

PVDG - Petascale Virtual Data Grid

PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine

A software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or NT computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer.

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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.

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