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RP1: Troubleshooting Grid authentication from the client side
Glossary
CA
Certification Authority
CE
Computing Element, manages clusters of WNs
CRL
Certificate Revocation List
Grid
The grid infrastructure NIKHEF is part of[4]
GSI
Grid Security Infrastructure
IS
Information System, keeps track of the utilisation/availability of resources
Job
Computer program to be executed on the Grid
LB
Logging and Bookkeeping, keeps track of the status of jobs
capabilities in VOs
MyProxy
Server that securely stores medium-lived proxy certificates that can be used to
renew short-lived proxies on trusted hosts
SE
Storage Element, manages a storage cluster
UI
User Interface, machine capable of submitting jobs to the Grid
VO
Virtual Organisation
VOMS
Virtual Organisation Membership Service, grants users membership, roles and
WMS
Workload Management System, accepts jobs from the UI
WN
Worker Node, executes jobs
Adriaan van der Zee
2009-02-05
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