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WSDL
(Web Service Description Language) is an XML format for
describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on
messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented
information
HPC
(High Performance Computing) uses supercomputers and computer
clusters to solve advanced computation problems
CPU
(Central processing unit)the part of a computer (a microprocessor
chip) that does most of the data processing
MoC
(Models of Computing) is the definition of the set of allowable
operations used in computation and their respective costs
MIR
myGrid information repository
SWIG
(Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)s a software development
tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of
high-level programming language
RPC
(Remote Procedure Call) is an inter-process communication that
allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to
execute in another address space (commonly on another computer
on a shared network) without the programmer explicitly coding
the details for this remote interaction
PCA
(Principal component analysis) involves a mathematical procedure
that transforms a number of possibly correlated variables into a
number of uncorrelated variables called principal components,
related to the original variables by an orthogonal transformation
XML
(Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding docu-
ments in machine-readable form
GridFTP
(Grid-enabled File Transport Protocol) is an extension of the
standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for use with Grid computing
LFC
(Logical File Catalog) has been developed by LCG (http://lcg.web.
cern.ch/LCG/) to resolve problems with the EDG Replica Manager
File Catalog
WSRF
(Web Service Reference Framework) is a family of OASIS-published
specifications for web services. Major contributors include the
Globus Alliance and IBM
ASKALON
is a Grid application development and computing environment
AWGL
(Abstract Grid Work fl ow Language) for describing Grid work fl ow
applications at a high level of abstraction
JXPL
is an XML-based Scripting Language for Workflow Execution in a
Grid Environment
GWorkowDL
(Generic Work fl ow Description Language) is a generic description
language for workflows in distributed environments. This software
package contains the XML Schema as well as Java tools for creating,
parsing, and editing GWorkflowDL documents
Karajan
is a work fl ow speci fi cation language and execution engine, being
developed within the Java CoG Kit
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