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Appendix A Acronyms

ACL Access Control List

ACLS Automated Cartridge System Library Software (Science Technology Corporation)

AIX Advanced Interactive Executive

API Application Program Interface

CDS Cell Directory Server

COS Class of Service

DCE Distributed Computing Environment

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GSS Generic Parallel File System

gid Group Identifier

GPFS IBM General Parallel File System

GSS Generic Security Service

HPSS High Performance Storage System

HTAR HPSS Tar

IBM International Business Machines Corporation

LaRC Langley Research Center

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ID Identifier

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

I/O Input / Output

IP Internet Protocol

NFS Network File System

OSF Open Software Foundation

PFTP Parallel File Transfer Protocol

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer

SNL Sandia National Laboratories

SP Scalable Processor

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

uid User Identifier

VV Virtual Volume

XDSM X/Open Data Storage Management

XFS File system by SGI (not actually an acronym)

 


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