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SAKAI

This is not an acronym, but is the name of a Japanese fusion chef working in New york. Its also the name of the portal, tools and content-management project which is an evolution of CHEF using JSR-168 and uPortal. Also has a content management system.

SAM - Sequential data Access via Meta-data (D0 experiment)

SAN - Storage Area Network

SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SAX - Simple API for XML

Saxon - XML parser and XSLT in Java (Apache project)

SciDAC - Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing

SCRAM - Software Configuration, Release And Management

SCORM - Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model

SCSI - Small Computer System Interface

SDK - Software Development Kit

SDSC - The San Diego Supercomputer Center

A National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego.

SE - Storage Element

SEQUIN - SErvice QUality across Independently managed Networks

Shibboleth

Shibboleth is an initiative to develop an open, standards-based solution to the needs for organizations to exchange information about their users in a secure, and privacy-preserving manner.

SIGTSTP

Condor checkpoint signal

SLAPD - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon

SLP - Service Location Protocol

SMP - Symmetric Multi-Processing

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SOA - Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

SMP - Symmetric Multiprocessing

SMP is the processing of programs by multiple processors that share a common operating system and memory. In symmetric (or "tightly coupled") multiprocessing, the processors share memory and the I/O bus or data path. A single copy of the operating system is in charge of all the processors. SMP, also known as a "shared everything" system, does not usually exceed 16 processors.

SP - Service Provider

SPP - Subject Portals Project

Spring framework

Modelling component of MVC holding Java beans in a registry. Uncouples model from hard-coded calls. Singleton pattern.

SQL - Structured Query Language (RDBMS)

SRB - Storage Resource Broker

Client-server middleware that provides a uniform interface for connecting to heterogeneous data resources over a network and accessing replicated data sets.

SRM - Storage Resource Management

SRP - Secure Remote Passsword protocol

SSL - Secure Sockets Layer

SSP - Storage Service Provider

Struts - Apache Jakarta Web application framework development system

SWITCH - Swiss Academic and Research Network

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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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