Glossary

  • CA: Certificate Authority
  • CTA: CERN Tape Archive - future tape backend for EOS
  • DAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning (also, WebDAV)
  • dCache: Storage Element
  • DCAP: dCache access protocol client library
  • DPM: Storage Element (Disk Pool Manager)
  • EOS: Storage Element built on top of the XRootD framework
  • EPEL: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
  • HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • GFAL2: Grid File Abstraction Layer 2
  • GSIFTP: Extension of the File Transfer Protocol
  • GridFTP: Extension of the File Transfer Protocol
  • LHC: Large Hadron Collider
  • LFC: LCG File Catalog
  • OSG: Open Science Grid
  • Proxy: A X509 certificate signed by another proxy or by the user End Entity Certificate. (As opposed by a "regular" X509 certificate, which is signed by a Certificate authority)
  • RFIO: Remote File I/O
  • RHEL: RedHat Enterprise Linux
  • S3: Amazon Simple Storage service
  • SRM: Storage Resource Manager
  • STORM: Storage Element (STOrage Resource Manager)
  • VO: Virtual Organization
  • VOMS: Virtual Organization Membership System
  • WebDAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning (also, DAV)
  • X509: Standard that defines the format of public key certificates.
  • XRootD: XRootD framework for data repositories, and, by inclusion, its native protocol.

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