Acronyms and Terminology
ACRONYM | DESCRIPTION | Notes |
A3M | Allocations, Accounting & Account Management |
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A&AM | Accounting & Account Management |
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A&D | Architecture & Design |
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ADR | Architecture Design Review |
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AL2S | Advanced Layer 2 Service | Enables Internet2 users to create point-to-point VLANs |
AMIE | Account Management Information Exchange |
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API | Application Programming Interface |
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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. |
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CB | Campus Bridging | Infrastructure to make XSEDE resources appear to be proximal to the researcher’s desktop |
CC | Campus Champion |
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CEE | Community Enhancement & Engagement |
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co-Pi | Co-Principal Investigator |
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CRI | Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration |
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CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
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CS&E | Computational Science & Engineering |
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DNS | Domain Name Service |
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DNSKEY | Domain Name Service Key |
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DNSSEC | DNS Security |
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DTS | Data Transfer Services |
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E&O | Education and Outreach |
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ECSS | Extended Collaborative Support Service |
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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. |
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ER | External Relations |
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ESRT | Extended Support for Research Teams |
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ESSGW | Extended Collaborative Support for Science Gateways |
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ESTEO | Extended Support for Training, Education, & Outreach |
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FTE | Full Technical Equivalent |
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GAAMP | General Automated Atomic Model Parameterization |
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GFFS | Globus Federated File System |
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GridFTP | Grid File Transfer Protocol |
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HPC | High Performance Computing |
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HPCU |
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HSM | Hardware Security Models |
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I2 | Internet2 |
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IC | Industry Challenge |
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IdM | Identity Management |
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INCA/Nagios | an service monitoring tool |
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IPR | Interim Project Report |
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IR | Incident Reports |
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JIRA | an activity tracking tool |
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KB | KB documents |
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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. |
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L2 | WBS Level 2 |
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L3 | WBS Level 3 |
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MFC | Minority Faculty Council |
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MS | Microsoft |
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MSI | Minority Serving Institution |
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NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
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NICS | National Institute of Computational Science |
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NIP | Novel and Innovative Projects |
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OPS-SEC | Operations - Cybersecurity |
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OSG | Open Science Grid |
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OTP | One Time Password |
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PCR | Project Change Request |
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PEP | Program Execution Plan |
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perfSONAR | PERFormance Service Oriented Network monitoring Architecture |
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PgO | Program Office |
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PI | Principal Investigator |
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PM | Project Management |
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PM&R | Project Management, Reporting & Risk Management |
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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 |
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PY | Program Year |
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RAS | Resource Allocations Service |
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RACD | Requirements Analysis & Capability Delivery |
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RDR | Resource Description Repository |
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RESTful | Representational state transfer |
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rocks roll | an open source cluster distribution solution that simplifies the processes of deploying, managing, upgrading, and scaling high-performance parallel computing clusters. |
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RSIG |
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RT | Request Tracker Ticketing System |
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SACNAS | Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans |
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SCxy | Supercomputing Conference (e.g. SC16) |
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SD&I | Software Development & Integration |
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SDIACT | Software Development & Integration Activity |
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SDSC | San Diego Supercomputer Center |
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SH2 | SH2 Security |
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Shodor | A National Resource for Computational Science Education |
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SMT | Senior Management Team |
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SP | Service Provider |
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STEM | Science Technology Engineering Mathematics |
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SysOps | Systems Operations |
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TACC | Texas Advanced Computing Center |
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TEOS | Training, Education and Outreach Service |
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TeraGrid | an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites. |
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TIS | Technology Investigation Service |
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UAC | User Advisory Committee |
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UCCAN | Use Case Canonical Use Case |
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UCCB | Campus Bridging Use Case |
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UCDA | Data Analytics Use Case |
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UCDM | Data Management Use Case |
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UCF | Federation and Interoperation Use Case |
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UCFC | First Connecting Instrumentation Use Case |
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UCHPC | High Performance Computing Use Case |
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UCHTC | High Throughput Computing Use Case |
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UCSGW | Science Gateway Use Case |
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UCSW | Scientific Workflow Use Case |
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UCVIS | Visualization Use Case |
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UE | User Engagement |
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