Page updated: 17/11/2005
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The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006

EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at: http://www.eu-egee.org

ACRONYM IN FULL AREA
AAA Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting; Authentication is proving who you are, Authorization is defining what you are allowed (and not allowed) to do. Accounting is keeping track of what you do. JRA3
AFM Administrative Federation Meeting NA1
AGM Architecture Group Member JRA1
ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment NA4
AliEn Grid for Alice experiment JRA1
AM EGEE Activity Manager NA1
API Application Programming Interface JRA1
ARDA Architectural Roadmap Toward Distributed Analysis JRA1
ATF Architecture Task Force (replaced by PTF) JRA1
ATLAS A Large Hadron Collider physics experiment NA4
AWG Application Working Group NA4
BaBar B and B-bar experiment NA4
BAR Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation JRA4
BCU Biocomputing Unit NA4
BI Bio Informatics NA4
BMI Bio Medical Informatics NA4
CA Certificate Authorities or Consortium Agreement GEN/NA1
CB Collaboration Board NA1
CC Cost Claims NA1
CIC Core Infrastructure Centre SA1
CM Cluster Manager JRA1
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid NA4
CVS Concurrent Versions System JRA1
CyGRID Cyprus Grid GEN
D0 DØ Experiment NA4
DAGS Directed Acyclic GraphS (Workflow software from CONDOR project) JRA1
DAIS Data Access and Integration Services JRA1
DataGrid European DataGrid Project GEN
DCS Dynamic Connectivity Service GEN
DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications GEN
diffserv Differentiated Services JRA4
DoS Denial of Service JRA3
EAC External Advisory Committee NA1
EC European Commission GEN
EDG European DataGrid Project GEN
EDMS Engineering Data Management Service (a Document Management tool) NA1
EELA Extending EGEE to Latin America NA1
EGAAP EGEE Generic Application Advisory Panel NA4
EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE GEN
eIRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group GEN
EMBnet European Molecular Biology network GEN
EMT Engineering Management Team JRA1
ENOC EGEE Network Operation Centre NA1
EO Earth observation NA4
ERA European Research Area GEN
ESR Earth Science Research GEN
EU European Union GEN
EUGridPMA European Grid authentication policy management authority for e-science GEN
FR Federation representative NA1
FTE Full Time Equivalent NA1
FAQs Frequently Asked Questions NA2
GAE High Energy Physics (HEP) software  
GAG Grid Application Group NA4
GAP Gender Action Plan NA1
GE Gigabit-Ethernet JRA4
GENIUS Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission NA4
GGF Global Grid Forum GEN
GGUS Global Grid User Support GEN
GigE Gigabit Ethernet GEN
GILDA Grid INFN Laboratory for dissemination activities NA4
gLITE Codename of the EGEE Middleware software suite developed by JRA1 JRA1
GOC Grid Operation Centre SA1
GSC Grid Support Centre SA1
GT Globus Toolkit GEN
HEP High Energy Physics - The link will take you to the Cern homepage NA4
HepCAL HEP Application Grid requirements NA4
HepCALII HEP Application Grid requirements NA4
I3 Integrated Infrastructures Initiative GEN
IAG Israeli Academic Grid GEN
ISO 9001 International Organization for Standardization: Quality assurance normalization JRA2
IST Information Society Technologies GEN
IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6
JRA1 EGEE Middleware Re-engineering and Integration activity JRA1
JRA2 EGEE Quality Assurance activity JRA2
JRA3 EGEE Security activity JRA3
JRA4 EGEE Network Services development activity JRA4
JSPG Joint Security Policy Group JRA3
L & B Logging and Bookkeeping software GEN
LCG LHC Computing Grid NA4
LHC Large Hadron Collider NA4
LHcb The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment NA4
MPI Message Passing Interface software GEN
MoU Memorandum of Understanding NA1
MW Middleware JRA1
NA1 EGEE Project Management Activity NA1
NA2 EGEE Dissemination and Outreach activity NA2
NA3 EGEE User Training and Induction activity NA3
NA4 EGEE application identification and support activity NA4
NA5 EGEE International Cooperation activity NA5
NEG Northern European Grid GEN
NOC Network Operation Centre SA2
NPM Network Performance Monitoring JRA4
OAG Operation Advisory Group SA1
OGSA Open Grid Service Architecture JRA1
OGSI Open Grid Service Infrastructure JRA1
OMC Operation Management Centre SA1
OMII Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute JRA1
OSG Open Science Grid (EGEE's sister project in the US) GEN
OSI Open Source Initiative GEN
PBS Product breakdown structure NA1
PD The EGEE Project Director, Mr. Robert Jones NA1
PDG Protein Design Group NA4
PEB Project Execution Board NA1
PIC Policy and International Cooperation NA5
PKI Public Key Infrastructure JRA3
PM Person Month or Project Month NA1
PMA Policy Management Authority JRA3
PMB Project Management Board NA1
PO Project Office NA1
POOL High Energy Physics (HEP) software NA4
PPT Project management tool for project tracking and reporting NA1
PR EU Periodic Reports NA1
PR Public Relations NA2
PROOF High Energy Physics (HEP) software NA4
PTD Project Technical Director NA1
PTF Project Technical Forum NA1
QA Quality Assurance JRA2
QAG Quality Group JRA2
QAM Quality Assurance Management JRA2
QAR Quality Assurance Representative JRA2
QI Quality Indicator JRA2
QoS Quality Of Services JRA2
QR EU Quarterly Report NA1
RB Resource Broker JRA1
RBAC Rules Based Access Control JRA3
RC Resource Centre SA1
RDIG Russian Data Intensive Grid GEN
RLS Replica Location Service JRA1
RM Release Manager; The Release Manager system allows the checkout/build/compile/test process to be performed with a few commands. JRA1
ROC Regional Operation Centre SA1
RoGRID Romanian GRID GEN
RTAG Requirements Technical Assessment Group, follow the link for the final report JRA1
SA1 EGEE European Grid Support, Operation and Management activity SA1
SA2 EGEE Network Resource Provision activity SA2
SCM Software Configuration Management JRA1
SE Storage element JRA1
SEAL High Energy Physics (HEP) software NA4
SEE South East Europe GEN
SEE-GRID South Eastern European Grid-Enabled e-Infrastructure Development GEN
SEEREN South East European Research Networking GEN
SGM Security Group Member JRA1
SIMBA Cern Mailing list management tool JRA1
SLA Service Level Agreement JRA2
SLR Service Level Request SA2
SLS Service Level Specification SA2
SOA Service Oriented Architecture JRA1
SPI Cern Software Process Infrastructure JRA1
SRM Storage Research Manager GEN
SSA Specific Support Action NA5
SW Software JRA1
SweGrid Swedish National Grid resource for science and research GEN
TA Technical Annex NA1
TAB Technical Advisory Board NA1
TD Technical Director NA1
TNLC Technical Network Liaison Committee JRA3
TT Trouble Ticket GEN
UML Unified Modelling Language JRA1
VV Verification and Validation activity JRA2
VDT Virtual Data Toolkit NA5
VO Virtual Organisation (aka Application Community) is a geographically independant group of collaborating scientists. NA4
VOMS VO Management Service JRA3
WBS Work Breakdown Structure, a project management technique to break the task into manageable chunks. NA1
WCIT World Congress on Information Technology GEN
WLM Work Load Management Software GEN
WN Worker Node GEN
WS Web Server JRA1
WSRF Web Services Resource Framework  
You can also check the contents of the Grid Acronym Soup (GAS) collated by GridPP in the UK.