twitterATLAS AcRonym Glossary (AARG)
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| AANT | Athena Aware NTuple |
| AB | Accelerators and Beams Department (CERN) |
| ABC | Atlas Binary Chip |
| AB/CO | Accelerators & Beam COntrols group (CERN) |
| ABCD | 'ABC' in DMILL technology |
| ABCD3T | ABCD version 3 with Trim DACs |
| ABCD3TA | Revised ABCD3T (current version) |
| ADA | ATLAS Distributed Analysis |
| AFP | Apple Filing Protocol |
| AIDA | Abstract Interface for Data Analysis |
| AIP | Alarm Integration Procedure |
| AIS | Administrative Information Services |
| ALFA | Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS |
| ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
| Alpgen | (Multi-parton process MC event generator) |
| AMCC | (Electronincs Manufacturer) |
| AMI | ATLAS Metadata Interface |
| AMT | Atlas Muon TDC |
| Anaphe | (HEP libraries + tools for analysis + visualisation) |
| ANS | Alarm Notification System |
| AOD | Analysis Object Data |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APW | (Electronincs Manufacturer) |
| ARDA | A Realisation of Distributed Analysis for LHC |
| Artemis | (Package to help writing C++ analyses) |
| ASD | Amplifier Shaper Discriminator |
| ASK | Athena Startup Kit |
| AT | Accelerator Technology Department (CERN) |
| ATCN | ATLAS point 1 Control Network |
| AtCom | Atlas Commander |
| Athena | (ATLAS offline software framework) |
| Atlantis | (ATLAS Standalone Event Display) |
| ATLAS | A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS |
| Atlfast | ATLAS Fast reconstruction package |
| ATN | ATNight |
| ATRECON | ATLAS RECONstruction program |
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| BC | Bunch Crossing |
| BCID | Bunch Crossing IDentity |
| BCM | Beam Conditions Monitor |
| BCR | Bunch Counter Reset |
| BE | Back End |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| BGA | Ball Grid Array |
| BGo | ? (TTC signal?) |
| BiLED | BiPhase Mark Encoder and LED drive module (obsolete) |
| BLOB | Binary Large OBject (Oracle data type) |
| BOC | Back Of Crate |
| Boost | (free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries) |
| BPM | Bi-Phase Mark |
| BST | Beam Synchronous Timing |
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| CAN | Controller Area Network (bus) |
| Capone | (Grid3/OSG workload management system) |
| CASTOR | CERN Advanced STORage manager |
| CBNT | ComBined NTuple |
| CC | Carbon fibre reinforced Carbon |
| CCS | ? (optimiser?) |
| CDI | Condition Database Interface |
| CDR | Central Data Recording |
| CDS | CERN Document Server |
| CEDAR | CERN EDMS for Detectors and AcceleratoRs |
| CEDAR | Combined e-Science Data Analysis Resource for high-energy physics |
| CHSM | Concurrent Heirarchical State Machine |
| Cid | Crate identifier |
| CLID | CLass IDentifier (Athena) |
| CLHEP | Class Library for High Energy Physics |
| CLOAC | CLOck And Control |
| CM | Crate Manager |
| CMB | Computing Management Board |
| CMT | Configuration Management Tool |
| COB | Chip On Board |
| COB | Computing Oversight Board |
| CoCa | Collection and Cache |
| COOL | (LCG/ATLAS conditions database) |
| CORAL | Core Relational Access Layer |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORBO | (VME Readout Control Board) |
| COTS | Commodity Off-The-Shelf |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device |
| CPN | CERN Public Network |
| CSAM | CERN Safety Alarm Monitoring |
| CSC | Cathod Strip Chambers ( Muon Spectrometer) |
| CSC | Computing System Commisioning |
| CSM | Chamber Service Module (Muon Spectrometer) |
| CSO | Cryogenics Safety Officer |
| CSR | Control and Status Register |
| CSS | CERN Safety System |
| CTB | Combined Test Beam |
| CTP | Central Trigger Processor |
| CTPDI | CTP Detector Interface |
| CTRL | Control |
| CVS | Concurrent Version System |
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| DA | Distributed Analysis |
| DAC | Digital to Analog Converter |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph |
| DAL | Data Access Library |
| DAQ | Data AcQuisition |
| DC | Data Collection |
| DC2 | Data Challenge 2 |
| DCS | Detector Control System (ATLAS) (SCT) |
| DDC | DAQ-DCS Communication |
| DDM | Distributed Data Management |
| DF | Data Flow |
| DFM | Data Flow Manager |
| DFP | Data Flow Partition |
| DIAL | Distributed Interactive Analysis of Large datasets |
| DIANE | DIstributed ANalysis Environment |
| DIG | Detector Interface Group |
| DIM | Distributed Information Management System |
| DIP | Data Interchange Protocol |
| DLF | Distributed Logging Facility |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DP | Data Preparation |
| DORIC | Digital Optical Receiver Integrated Circuit |
| DPD | Derived Physics Data |
| DQ | Don Quijote (ATLAS Experiment Data Management System) |
| DRD | Derived Reconstruction Data |
| DRDC | Detector Research and Development Committee (defunct) |
| DRX | Data Receiver integrated circuit |
| DS | Diagnostics package |
| DSA | ? |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSS | Detector Safety System (LHC) |
| DSU | Detector Safety Unit |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DVS | Diagnostic Verification System (also Data Viewing System) |
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| EAH | External Alarm Handler |
| EB | Event Builder |
| EB | Executive Board |
| EB | Extended Barrel (Tile Calorimeter) |
| EBC | Event Builder Crate |
| EbDest | Event builder Destination |
| EBIF | Event Builder InterFace |
| EbSrc | Event builder Source |
| EC | End Cap |
| ECR | Engineering Change Request |
| ECR | Event Counter Reset |
| EDH | Electronic Document Handling |
| EDM | Event Data Model |
| EDMS | Engineering Data Management Service |
| EDS | Electronic Document Submission |
| EF | Event Filter |
| EFD | Event Filter Dataflow |
| EFIF | Event Filter InterFace (= L3IF) |
| EFB | Event Fragment Builder |
| EH | Error Handling (TDAQ) |
| ELMB | Embedded Local Monitor Board (DCS) |
| ELS | Event Logging System (LHC) |
| EM | ElectroMagnetic |
| EMB | Event Management Board |
| EMDB | Equipment Management Database (JCOP) |
| EMIF | Extended Memory InterFace |
| EMS | Event Monitoring Sampler |
| ENC | Equivalent Noise Charge |
| ERL | Error Reporting and Logging |
| ESD | ElectoStatic Discharge |
| ESD | Event Summary Data |
| ESRAT | Event Selection, Reconstruction and Analysis Tools |
| EST | Engineering Support and Technology division (CERN) |
| ETM | (Developers of PVSS) |
| EV | EventView |
| EVS | Event Viewing System |
| EVUD | EventView User Data |
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| FBT | Fused Biconically Tapered technology |
| FCAL | Forward CALorimeter |
| FDL | Final Decision Logic |
| FDW | Formatter Data Writes |
| FE | Front end Electronics |
| FEC | Front End Controller |
| FEL | Front End Link |
| FEMB | Front End MotherBoard (S-Link) |
| FEth | Fast Ethernet? |
| FEX | Feature EXtraction |
| FI | Finance Department (CERN) |
| FIAP | Formatter Increment Address Pointer |
| FIFO | First In First Out |
| FILAR | Four Integrated Links for Atlas tests by ROD? |
| FGSO | Flammable Gas Safety Officer (LHC) |
| FLUKA | (Hadronic shower simulation) |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array ? |
| FS | Final State objects |
| FS | Front Support |
| FSI | Frequency Scan Interferometry |
| FSM | Finite State Machine |
| FT | Fault Tolerance (TDAQ) |
| FW | FrameWork |
| FWT | Formatter Writes Trailer (ROD formatter) |
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| G4 | Geant4 |
| G4AtlasApps | Geant4 ATLAS Applications |
| GANGA | Gaudi / Athena aNd Grid Alliance |
| GAUDI | (LHCb Data Processing Applications Framework) |
| GBETh | GigaBit Ethernet |
| GBNIC | GigaBit ethernet Network Interface Card |
| GCS | Gas Control System (LHC) |
| GDML | Geometry Description Markup Language |
| Geant4 | A toolkit for simulation of the passage of particles through matter['Géant' = French 'Giant'] |
| GEH | Generic External Handler |
| GENSER | GENerator SERvice |
| GEth | Gigabit Ethernet? |
| Gid | Global identifier |
| GIF | Gamma Irradiation Facility |
| GLIMOS | Group Leader in Matters of Safety (CERN) |
| GMT | Global Muon Trigger |
| GOL | ? (link card for MROD) |
| GTFE | Global Trigger Front End |
| GTL | Global Trigger Logic |
| GTS | Grid Tools & Services |
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| HCI | Human Computer Interface |
| HEC | Hadron End Cap |
| HENP | High Energy Nuclear Physics |
| HEPiX | High Energy Physics UniX interest group |
| HepWeb | (Monte Carlo tools for HEP) |
| HERWIG | Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons |
| HIJING | Heavy Ion Jet INteraction Generator |
| HIPPI | High-Performance Parallel Interface |
| HLT | High Level Trigger |
| HOLA | High speed Optical Link for Atlas |
| HPIA | Host Port Interface Address register (DSP) |
| HPIC | Host Port Interface Command register (DSP) |
| HPID++ | Host Port Interface Data register with address auto-increment |
| HPU | ?? Processing Unit |
| HR | Human Resources Department (CERN) |
| HTL | Histogram Template Library (Gaudi) |
| HVS | Heirarchical Versioning System |
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| ICB | International Computing Board |
| ID | Inner Detector |
| IDE | Interactive Development Environment |
| IDET | Inner DETector |
| IDL | Interface Description Language |
| IDRAM | Internal Data RAM? |
| IGUI | Integrated Graphical User Interface |
| ILU | Inter Language Unification |
| InDiCo | Integrated Digital Conference (CERN) |
| INJ | INJector |
| IO | Inferred Objects |
| IOM | I/O Module |
| IOV | Interval Of Validity (conditions database) |
| IPC | InterProcess Communication |
| IPRAM | Internal Program RAM? |
| IS | Information Service |
| ISAJET | (p p, pbar p, and e+ e- MC event generator) |
| ISO | International Standardization Organization |
| ISO 8601 | (ISO date + time notation) |
| ISSS | Insertion Services Support Structure |
| IT | Information Technology Department (CERN) |
| ITE | Inner Thermal Enclosure |
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| JAS | Java Analysis Studio |
| JCOP | Joint COntrols Project |
| JetWeb | (Monte Carlo model validation) |
| JIMMY | (Multiple Parton Scattering Monte Carlo) |
| JiveXML | (Athena data XML files for Event display) |
| JNI | Java Native Interface |
| JO | Job Options |
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| KLOE | ? (TGC buffer manager?) |
| KV | Kit Validation (NICOS) |
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| L1 | Level 1 trigger |
| L2 | Level 2 trigger |
| L3 | Level 3 trigger |
| L1A | Level 1 Accept signal |
| L1ID | Level 1 Trigger IDentity |
| L2PU | L2 Processing Unit? |
| L3IF | Level 3 trigger InterFace |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LAPP | Labatoire d'Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules (sp?) |
| LAr | Liquid Argon calorimeter |
| LCG | LHC Computing Grid |
| LCG 3D | LCG Distributed Deployment of Databases project |
| LCS | Local Control Station (ATLAS DCS) |
| LDAQ | Local DAQ |
| LDC | Link Destination Card (S-Link) |
| LDIWG | LHC Data Interchange Working Group |
| LEADE | LHC Experiment-Accelerator Data Exchange Working Group |
| LECC | ? (TTC) |
| LEMON | LHC Era MONitoring |
| LFF | ? (ROL?) |
| LHAPDF | Les Houches Accord Parton Density Functions |
| LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
| LJSF | Light Job Submission Framework |
| LMB | Local Monitor Box (DCS) |
| LMT | Low Mass Tape |
| LOM | Learning Object Meta-data (IEEE) |
| LSC | Link Source Card (S-Link) |
| LSF | Load Sharing Facility |
| LTP | Local Trigger Processor |
| LUCID | LUminosity measurement using Cerenkov Integrating Detector |
| LUT | Look-Up Table |
| LVDS | Low Voltage Differential Signals |
| LVL1 | Level 1 trigger |
| LXBATCH | (CERN public batch system) |
| LXCERT | LinuX CERTification coordination group (CERN) |
| LXPLUS | LinuX Public Login Unix Service (CERN) |
| LXR | Linux Cross Referencer |
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| MAG | Measurement Analysis Group (TDAQ) |
| Maui | (Cluster scheduler) |
| MC@NLO | Monte Carlo at Next-to-Leading-Order |
| MC4LHC | Monte Carlo tools for the LHC |
| MCC | Module Controller Chip (pixels) |
| MCDB | MonteCarlo DataBase |
| MDA | Monitoring Data Archiving |
| MDSP | Master DSP |
| MDT | Muon Drift Tube chambers (Muon Spectrometer) |
| MIBAK | Muon trigger Interface dedicated BacKplane |
| MICTP | Muon Interface to the Central Trigger Processor |
| MIOCT | Muon trigger Interface OCTant board IO controller |
| MIROD | Muon trigger Interface ReadOut Driver |
| MROD | precision Muon chamber ROD |
| MRS | Message Reporting System |
| MTF | Manufacturing and Test Folder |
| MUCTPI | Muon-to-CTP Interface |
| MUR | Minimum Unit of Readout |
| MuSTARD | Multichannel Semiconductor Tracker ABC(D) Readout Device |
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| NAG | Numerical Algorithms Group |
| NMGR | Network ManaGeR |
| NRZ | Non-Return to Zero |
| NICE | Network Integrated Computing Environment (CERN Win XP network) |
| NICOS | NIghtly COntrol System |
| NIEL | Non-Ionising Energy Loss |
| NOVA | Networked Object-based enVironment for Analysis (prototype detector description DB) |
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| OBK | Online BookKeeper |
| OC | Output Controller |
| ODBMS | Object Database Management System |
| ODIN | Optical Dual G-LINK S-Link interface |
| ODMG | Object Data Management Group |
| OFC | Optimal Filtering Coefficients (LAr) |
| OHP | Online Histogram Presenter |
| OKS | Object Kernal Support |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OMT | Object Modelling Technique |
| OPC | OLE for Process Control |
| OPTIF | OPTical InterFace |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| OTE | Outer Thermal Enclosure |
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| PANDA | Production ANd Distributed Analysis (OSG) |
| PAT | Physics Analysis Tools |
| PATHENA | PANDA ATHENA |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PEEK | PolyEtherEtherKetone thermoplastic |
| PESA | Physics and Event Selection Architecture |
| PH | Physics Department (CERN) |
| PH/ESS | Physics Department Electronic Systems Support (CERN) |
| PI | Physicist Interface |
| PID | Partition IDentifier |
| PIN | P type - Intrinsic - N type diode |
| PIXEL | Pixel detector |
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller |
| PLL | (Pixel readout card) |
| PLUS | Public Login Unix Service (e.g. LXPLUS) |
| PMC | PCI Mezzanine Card? |
| PMD | Process Manager Daemon |
| PMG | Process ManaGement |
| POM | Persistent Object Manager |
| POOL | Pool Of persistent Objects for LHC |
| PPF1 | Patch Panel Forward 1 (SCT) |
| PPR | PreProcessor Readout |
| ProdSys | Production System |
| PT | Processing Task |
| PU | Processing Unit |
| PVSS | ProzessVisualisierungs- und Steuerungs-System (DCS) |
| PYTHIA | (Lund Monte Carlo Event Generator) |
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| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QAP | Quality Assurance Plan |
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| RAC | Real Application Clusters (Oracle) |
| RAL | Relational Access Layer (LCG) |
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| RAMSES | Radiation Monitoring System for the Environment and Safety (LHC) |
| RAT | Request a Task (AMI) |
| RBK | Run BookKeeper |
| RC | Run Control |
| RCC | ROD Crate Controller |
| RCD | ROD Crate DAQ |
| RCM | ROD Crate Module |
| RCP | ROD Crate Processor |
| RCW | ROD Crate Workstation |
| RDB | Relational (or 'Remote') DataBase |
| RDO | Raw Data Object |
| RIO | Real time I/O? (PowerPC VME CPU board from CES) |
| RIO | Reconstruction Input Object |
| RM | Resource Manager |
| RMCSS | Rack Monitoring, Control and Safety (JCOP) |
| ROB | ReadOut Buffer |
| ROBIN | ROB INput in ROS |
| ROC | ReadOut Crate (archaic) also ROD Controller module (LAr) |
| ROCC | ReadOut Crate Controller |
| ROD | ReadOut Driver |
| RODC | ROD Crate |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| ROL | ReadOut Link |
| ROMB | ReadOut MotherBoard (S-Link) |
| rootd | (root file access over internet) |
| ROS | ReadOut Subsystem |
| RPC | Resistive Plate Chamber (Muon Spectrometer) |
| RPU | Rejection Processing Unit |
| RRI | ? |
| RRIF | Rod Register InterFace |
| RS | Rear Support |
| RSO | Radiation Safety Officer (LHC) |
| RSS | Rack Safety System (DSS) |
| RTC | Radiation Tolerance Criteria |
| RTF | Reconstruction Task Force |
| RTT | Run Time Tester (NICOS) |
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| S2P | Serial to Parallel? |
| SBC | Single Board Computer |
| SC | Safety Commission Unit (CERN) |
| SC4 | Service Challenge 4 |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition |
| SCI | Scalable Coherent Interface |
| SCRAM | Software Configuration, Release And Management |
| SCT | Semiconductor Central Tracker |
| SCTHV | SCT High Voltage power supply |
| SCTLV | SCT Low Voltage power supply |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| SDSP | Slave DSP |
| SEAL | Shared Environment for Applications at LHC |
| SEB | Single Event Burnout |
| SEE | Single Event Effect |
| SEL | Single Event Latchup |
| SEU | Single Event Upset |
| SF | SubFarm |
| SFC | Sub Farm Crate or Switch Farm Class |
| SFI | SubFarm Input (or Switch to Farm InterFace) |
| SFO | SubFarm Output |
| SFP | Small Form factor Pluggable |
| SG | Secretary-General |
| SG | StoreGate |
| SHARC | ADSP 21060L DSP from Analog Devices |
| Sid | Source identifier |
| SI2k | SPECint2000 benchmark |
| SIL2 | Safety Integrity Level 2 |
| SIM | SIMulated event data |
| SIT | Software InfraStructure Team (ATLAS) |
| SL | Scientific Linux |
| SLATE | ?(32 bit VMEbus Word Generator) |
| SLC3 | Scientific Linux CERN 3 |
| SLHC | Super LHC |
| SLIDAD | S-Link Infinite DAta Drain (emulator) |
| SLIDAS | S-Link Infinite DAta Source (emulator) |
| SLOG | SLOw command Generator |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMIL | Syncronized Multimedia Integration Language (W3C) |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| S-Link | Simple Link Interface |
| SPAC | ? (LAR front end bus) |
| SPEC | Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| SPECint2000 | SPEC CINT2000 benchmark |
| SPI | Software Process & Infrastructure (LCG) |
| SPMB | Software Project Management Board |
| SPS | Simple PMC to S-link interface |
| SPU | Sparsifying Processing Units |
| SRM | Storage Resource Management |
| SRT | Software Release Tools |
| SSP | Simple S-link to PMC interface |
| STFT | Services Thermal FeedThrough |
| StP | Software through Pictures |
| SVN | SubVersioN |
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| TAG | (event level metadata) |
| TBM | ? (LAR ROD module?) |
| TCC | ? |
| TCL | ? (testing TRT RODs) |
| TCR | Technical Control Room (CERN) |
| TDAQ | Trigger & Data AcQuisition |
| TDM | ? (encoding) |
| TDS | Technical Data Server (LHC) |
| TDS | Transient Data Store (Athena) |
| TE | Thermal Enclosure |
| TES | Transient Event Store |
| TGC | Thin Gap Chambers (Muon Spectrometer) |
| ThePEG | Toolkit for High Energy Physics Event Generation |
| TI | Temporary Interconnect |
| TID | Total Ionising Dose |
| TIM | Technical Infrastructure Monitoring (LHC) |
| TIM | Trigger Interface Module |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym (A meta-acronym?) |
| TMB | Technical Management Board |
| TMS | Tape Management System |
| TOB | Trigger and Offline Board |
| TOT | Time Over Threshold |
| TPG | Thermalised Pyrolytic Graphite |
| TPP | Temporary Patch Panel |
| TRG | TRiGger module |
| TRT | Transition Radiation Tracker |
| TS | Technical Support division (CERN) |
| TSI | Technical Supervision Interface |
| TTC | Trigger, Timing & Control |
| TTCbi | TTC BST interface |
| TTCex | TTC encoder/transmitter |
| TTCmi | TTC machine interface |
| TTCmx | TTC mini transmitter |
| TTCoc | TTC optical coupler |
| TTCpr | TTC PMC receiver |
| TTCrx | TTC receiver |
| TTCtx | TTC transmitter |
| TTCvi | TTC VMEbus interface |
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| UD | User Data |
| UML | Unified Modelling Language |
| UMT | User Monitoring Task? |
| URD | User Requirements Document |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier (WWW) |
| UTF | Users Task Force |
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| VCSEL | Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser |
| VDC | VCSEL Driver Chip |
| VHDL | VHSIC Hardware Description Language |
| VHSIC | Very High Speed Integrated Circuit |
| VMC | Virtual Monte Carlo |
| VXCO | ? (TTC module?) |
| VXI | VME eXtensions for Instrumentation |
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| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
| WLAP | Web Lecture Archive Project |
| WLCG | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid |
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| XLL | Extensible Linking Language (XML) |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XMLHEP | (Low volume MC persistency format) |
| XROOTD | (Extended rootd?) |
| XSL | Extensible Style Language (XML) |
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| YUM | Yellow dog Updater, Modified |
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| ZDC | Zero Degree Calorimeter |
Other ATLAS Related Sources:
- Athena Startup Kit Glossary
- ATLAS TDAQ Glossary
- ATLAS Workbook Glossary
- Grid Acronym Soup
- HEP Acronyms from FNAL
- LCG SPI external software list
General Sources:
- Acronymfinder.com
- Free Online Dictionary of Computing at Imperial College
- Good Old Google
- Whatis.com
- Wikipedia
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