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PFT
(Process Flow Template) is a concept that helps to enforce best practices,
and increase the re-usability within a given scientific domain
VO
(Virtual Organizations), in Grid computing, refers to a dynamic set of
individual and/or institutions defined around a set of resource-sharing
rules and conditions
SWMS
Scienti fi c Work fl ow Management System
VL-e
(Virtual Laboratory for e-Science) is a Dutch research project with
the aim to bridge the gap between the technology push of the high
performance networking and the Grid and the application pull of a
wide range of scientific experimental applications
tele-science
merges advanced solutions for remote instrumentation (via Telemi-
croscopy), distributed data computation and storage, and transparent
access to federated databases of cell structure
MACS
(Material Analysis of Complex Surface) experiments try to identify
and determine the elements that compose complex surfaces, regard-
less of the nature of the sample
DAG
(Directed Acyclic Graphs) is a directed graph with no directed cycles
MDS
(Globus Monitoring and Discovery System)is the information services
component of the Globus Toolkit and provides information about the
available resources on the Grid and their status
HEFT
(Earliest Finish Time) is equal to the Early Start Time of a given task
plus the duration of this task
OWT
(Olingo Web Tool) is a tool to automate the generation of the PFT
data structure
SOAP
(Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol specification for
exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web
Services in computer net- works
VRS
(Virtual Resource System) a Java API used which provide a single
access point to the Grid resources
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