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M

MPI
Message Passing Interface

MoU
Memorandum of Understansding

MW
Middleware

  
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N

NA2
EGI-InSPIRE Network Activity (External Relations)

NA3
EGI-InSPIRE Network Activity (User Community coordination)

NCG
(Nagios) Configuration Generator

NGI
National Grid Initiative/Infrastructure

NGI UST
NGI User Support Team

NOC
Network Operation Center
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O

OAT
Operations Automation Team

OLA
Operational Level Agreement

OMB
Operations Management Board

OGF
Open Grid Forum

OSG
Open Science Grid

OTAG
Operational Tools Advisory Group

OTF
Organisation Task Force
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P

PaaS
Platform as a Service

 
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R

RAT
The Risk Assessment Team

RC
Resource Centre

R-GMA
Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture

ROC
Regional Operations Centre

ROD
Regional Operator on Duty

RP
Resource Provider

RUQI
Resource Usage Querying Interface

RUS
Resource Usage Service
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S

SA
Specific Service Activity

SAM
Service Availability Monitoring

SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language

SC
Supercomputing

SCAS
Site Central Authorization Service

SCG
Security Coordination Group

SDG
Security Drill Group

SGAS
SweGrid Accounting System 

SGE
Sun (Oracle) Grid Engine 

SIENA
Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure

SLA
Service Level Agreement

SMG
Security Monitoring Group

SPG
Security Policy Group

SPL
Simplified Policy Language

SQL
Structured Query Language

SRM
Storage Resource Managemente

SSG
Security Software Group

STDG
Security Training and Dissemination Group

SVG
Software Vulnerabity Group

  
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T

TCB
Technical Coordination Board

TD
Target Date

TLP
The Traffic Light Protocol

TPM
Ticket Processing Management

ToR
Terms of Reference

TWG / EGI-TWG
EGI-InSPIRE Training Working Group
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U

UCB
User Community Board

UCST
User Community Support Team

UMD
Unified Middleware Distribution

UNICORE
Uniform Interface for Computing Resources (middleware stack)

USAG
User Services Advisory Group

UVOS
UNICORE VO Service
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V

VO
Virtual Organisation

VOMRS
VO Management Registration Service

VRC
Virtual Research Community

  
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W

WLCG
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

WMS
Workload Management System

WN
Worker Node

  
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X

XACML
eXtensible Access Control Markup Language

XML
eXtensible Markup Language

XSL
eXtensible Stylesheet Language

XUUDB
UNICORE User Database
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