(a very limited/partial glossary)
- ARC : Advanced Resource Connector
- BDII : Berkeley Database Information Index
- CA : Certification Authority
- CE : Computing Element
- CRL : Certifcate Revocation List
- CS : Confguration Service
- DISET : DIRAC (DIrac SEcure Transport) In-House client/service protocol
- DMS : Data Management System
- DN : Distinguished Name
- DST : Data Summary Tape
- FTS : File Transfer Service
- GFAL : Grid File Access Library
- GLUE : Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment
- GridFTP : Grid File Transfer Protocol
- GSI : Grid Security Infrastructure
- GUID : Globally Unique IDentifer
- JDL : Job Description Language
- JobDB : Job Database
- JobID : Job Identifer
- LDAP : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LFC : LCG File Catalogue
- LFN : Logical File Name
- MC : Monte Carlo
- OSG : Open Science Grid
- Panda : Production ANd Distributed Analysis
- PFN : Physical File Name
- ProdID : Production Identifer
- SE : Storage Element
- SRM : Storage Resource Manager
- SURL : Storage URL
- VO : Virtual Organisation
- VOMS : Virtual Organisation Membership Service
- WLCG : WorldWide LHC Computing Grid
- WMS : Workload Management System
- WN : Worker Node
- WSDL : Web Services Description Language
- WSRF : Web Services Resource Framework