See also VO.AcronymsAndLinks.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- CDS - Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg Data center dedicated to collecting and distributing astronomical data and related info. Hosts SIMBAD. Partner with AVO
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- ESO - European Southern Observatory Intergovernmental European organisation for astronomical research based near Munich, with observatories in Chile. Partner with AVO
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- GOODS data - Great Observatories Origin Deep Space A number of data sets covering two 'deep fields'; the 'Hubble Deep Field North' (mostly American?) and 'Chandra Deep Field South' (ESO)
- GRAM - Globus Resource Allocation Manager The service in Globus 1 and Globus 2 that allows a job to be run on a processor.
- GSI - Grid Security Infrastructure The architecture and libraries of the authentication system used by Globus.
- GT2 - Globus Toolkit version 2
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- IAA - Identity, Authentication and Authorization The three pillars of access control for networked software.
- IDL - Interactive Data Language an existing query (& algorithmic) language used to query some astronomical databases
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- MDS - Metacomputing Data Service A part of the Globus toolkit. MDS is a registry that reports details of computing resources.
- MySpace
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- OGSA - Open Grid Services Architecture A way of making web services stateful and more capable of instrospection.
- OGSA-TP - OGSA technology preview A prototype of a reference implelentation of OGSA. OGSA-TP is likely to evolve into version 3 of the Globus toolkit.
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- SED - Spectral Energy Distribution
- SExtractor - Existing application that extracts object catalogues from images
- SWG - AVO Science Working Group
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- TSP - TechnicalSupportPanel
- 2MASS - Two-micron All-Sky Survey - Infra-red (Caltech)
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- WSDL - Web Services Description Language An XML vocabulary for describing the intefaces of web services.
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Topic revision: r8 - 2005-09-15 - 09:26:00 - JonathanTedds
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