Acronyms and Terminology

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	Notes
A3M	Allocations, Accounting & Account Management
A&AM	Accounting & Account Management
A&D	Architecture & Design
ADR	Architecture Design Review
AL2S	Advanced Layer 2 Service	Enables Internet2 users to create point-to-point VLANs
AMIE	Account Management Information Exchange
API	Application Programming Interface
Area Metric	A quantifiable measure that is used to track and assess the status of a specific process. Area metrics can measure performance or operational status. Area metrics relating to performance can be used alone or in combinations as a key performance indicator (KPI) for the project.
CB	Campus Bridging	Infrastructure to make XSEDE resources appear to be proximal to the researcher’s desktop
CC	Campus Champion
CEE	Community Enhancement & Engagement
co-Pi	Co-Principal Investigator
CRI	Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CS&E	Computational Science & Engineering
DNS	Domain Name Service
DNSKEY	Domain Name Service Key
DNSSEC	DNS Security
DTS	Data Transfer Services
E&O	Education and Outreach
ECSS	Extended Collaborative Support Service
e-infrastructure	The integration of networks, grids, data centers and collaborative environments, and are intended to include supporting operation centers, service registries, credential delegation services.
ER	External Relations
ESRT	Extended Support for Research Teams
ESSGW	Extended Collaborative Support for Science Gateways
ESTEO	Extended Support for Training, Education, & Outreach
FTE	Full Technical Equivalent
GAAMP	General Automated Atomic Model Parameterization
GFFS	Globus Federated File System
GridFTP	Grid File Transfer Protocol
HPC	High Performance Computing
HPCU
HSM	Hardware Security Models
I2	Internet2
IC	Industry Challenge
IdM	Identity Management
INCA/Nagios	an service monitoring tool
IPR	Interim Project Report
IR	Incident Reports
JIRA	an activity tracking tool
KB	KB documents
KPI	Key Performance Indicators - A metric or combination of metrics meant to measure performance in key areas of the program so that actions and decisions which move the metrics in the desired direction also move the program in the direction of the desired outcomes and goals.
L2	WBS Level 2
L3	WBS Level 3
MFC	Minority Faculty Council
MS	Microsoft
MSI	Minority Serving Institution
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCSA	National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NICS	National Institute of Computational Science
NIP	Novel and Innovative Projects
OPS-SEC	Operations - Cybersecurity
OSG	Open Science Grid
OTP	One Time Password
PCR	Project Change Request
PEP	Program Execution Plan
perfSONAR	PERFormance Service Oriented Network monitoring Architecture
PgO	Program Office
PI	Principal Investigator
PM	Project Management
PM&R	Project Management, Reporting & Risk Management
POPS	PACI Online Proposal System	this is no longer an acronym and POPS is just the name for the allocation submission system; being supplanted by XRAS
PSC	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PY	Program Year
RAS	Resource Allocations Service
RACD	Requirements Analysis & Capability Delivery
RDR	Resource Description Repository
RESTful	Representational state transfer
rocks roll	an open source cluster distribution solution that simplifies the processes of deploying, managing, upgrading, and scaling high-performance parallel computing clusters.
RSIG
RT	Request Tracker Ticketing System
SACNAS	Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
SCxy	Supercomputing Conference (e.g. SC16)
SD&I	Software Development & Integration
SDIACT	Software Development & Integration Activity
SDSC	San Diego Supercomputer Center
SH2	SH2 Security
Shodor	A National Resource for Computational Science Education
SMT	Senior Management Team
SP	Service Provider
STEM	Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
SysOps	Systems Operations
TACC	Texas Advanced Computing Center
TEOS	Training, Education and Outreach Service
TeraGrid	an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites.
TIS	Technology Investigation Service
UAC	User Advisory Committee
UCCAN	Use Case Canonical Use Case
UCCB	Campus Bridging Use Case
UCDA	Data Analytics Use Case
UCDM	Data Management Use Case
UCF	Federation and Interoperation Use Case
UCFC	First Connecting Instrumentation Use Case
UCHPC	High Performance Computing Use Case
UCHTC	High Throughput Computing Use Case
UCSGW	Science Gateway Use Case
UCSW	Scientific Workflow Use Case
UCVIS	Visualization Use Case
UE	User Engagement
UII	User Interfaces and Information
URC	Under-represented communities
URCE	Under-Represented Community Engagement
UREP	User Requirement Evaluation and Prioritization
URM	Under-Represented Minority
US	United States
WBS	Work Breakdown Structure	Numerical code for each group within XSEDE
XCBC	XSEDE Compatible Basic Cluster	Enables campus CI resource administrators to build a local cluster from scratch. The resulting cluster, which operates entirely on open source software, is then easily interoperable with XSEDE-supported CI resources
XCDB	XSEDE Central Database	The XDCDB contains 24 schemas, notably the accounting, resource repository, portal, and AMIE databases.
XDCDB	XSEDE Central Database
XCI	XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration
XNIT	XSEDE National Integration Toolkit	A suite of software modules that are easily installed via modern automated system administration tools. The XNIT is intended for extant clusters in order for them to be easily interoperable with XSEDE-supported CI resources.
XOC	XSEDE Operation Center
XRAC	XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee
XRAS	XSEDE Resource Allocations Service
XSEDE	eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
XSEDE CA	XSEDE Certificate Authorities	Entity responsible for certifying encryption keys for identity management
XSEDE KDC	XSEDE Kerberos
XSEDE14	XSEDE Conference in 2014
XSEDEnet	an XSEDE-only network
XSP	XSEDE Scholars Program
XTED	XSEDE Technology Evaluation Database
XUP	XSEDE User Portal
XWFS	XSEDE Wide File System