GridDic - the Grid computing Glossary

Welcome the Gridipedia Grid computing glossary, a dictionary with definitions on popular terms and common abbreviations used in distributed computing - from AAI to XEAI!

A B C D E F G I H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

AAI
Access Control
Access Control Information
Access Right
Accounting
Activation Service
Actor
Application Level Gateway
Application server
Artefact
ASP
Asserting Party (SAML)
Association
Asynchronous
Attribute Service
Audit Guard (PEP)
Authentication
Authorization
Authorization Decision
Availability (Metric)

B

Binding

C

Capability
Circuit Level Gateway
Claim
Client
Cluster
Component
Conjunctive Sequence
Constrained Delegation
Control
Conversation
Coordination Context
Coordination Protocol
Coordination Service
Coordination Type
Coordinator
Credential
Cross Enterprise Application Integration (XEAI)
CTR
Customer

D

Data Grids
Database Federation
Data Management
Decision Request
Delivery Policy
Digest
Digital Signature
Direct Brokered Trust
Direct Trust
Discovery
Discovery Service
Disjunctive Sequence
Domain

E

EAI
Effect
End Point
End Point Reference
Enforcement Domain
Engagement
Engine Frame
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Enterprise Grid
ESB
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Environment
Evaluation

F

Federation (Trust)
File Access Strategies
FlexLM
FLEXnet
Floating License

G

Gateway
GridFTP
GridSphere
GSI

H

I

ICT
Idempotent
Identity Mapping
Identity Provider
Indirect Brokered Trust
Initial SOAP Sender
Interceptor
Interceptor Pool
Intermediary Service
ISV

J

JSR 168

K

L

License Client
License Management Software
License Server
Logical file names
Loose Coupling
LSP

M

Manageable Service
Management
Management Capability
Management Interface
Management Policy
Management Semantics
Message Correlation
Message Exchange Pattern (MEP)
Message Level Enforcement (SOAP)
Message Reliability
Message Transport
Metadata
Metadata catalogue
Metric
Monitoring

N

Named Attribute
Named User Licence
Negotiation
Network Application Platform (NAP)
Network,Source Network, Support Network, Breeding Environment
Node-locked Licence
Non-Repudiation

O

Obligation
OGSA DAI
Operation
Orchestration

P

Participant
Percentage utilisation (Metric)
Performance
Permission
Permission Guard (PEP)
Physical File Name
PKI
Policy
Policy Administration Point (PAP)
Policy Decision Point (PDP)
Policy Guard (PEP)
Policy Information Point (PIP)
Policy Service
Portlet
Principal
Privacy Policy
Proof-Of-Possession Token
Provider
Proxy
Publication
Public Key Infrastructure

Q

Quality Of Service (QoS)

R

RBAC
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Realm
Reference Architecture
Registration Service
Registry
Re-negotiation
Replica
Repositories
Requester
Resource Provider
Response Time (Metric)

S

SAML Assertion
SAML Attribute
SAML Authorisation Decision
SAML Protocol
SAML
Security Administration
Security Architecture
Security Assertion (SAML)
Security Assertion Markup Language
Security Auditing
Security Domain
Security Mechanism
Security Model
Security Policy
Security Service
Security Token
Security Token Service (STS)
Sender Authentication
Service
Service Broker
Service Description
Service Instance
Service Interface
Service Intermediary
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Service Provider
Service Reporting
Service Role
Service Semantics
Signature
Signature Validation
Signed Security Token
Single Sign On (SSO)
SLA
SLO
SME
SOAP
SOCKS
SRB
SSO
State
Storage system types
Synchronous
System Entity

T

Three-tier Architecture
Threshold
Throughput (Metric)
Transaction
Transport Service
Trust
Trust Domain
Trust Realm
Tsocks

U

V

Validation Service
Virtual Hosting Environment (VHE)
VHE Gateway
Virtual Organisation (VO)
VO
VO Creation
VO Life Cycle
VO Management
VO Member
VO Participant
VO Partner

W

Web Application
Web Component
Web Container
Web Portal
Web Service
WebDAV

X

XACML
XACML Condition
XACML Context
XACML Context Handler
XACML Obligation
XACML Predicate
XACML Rule
XACML Subject
XACML Target
XEAI