An extended list of glossary definitions, abbreviations and acronyms is part of the main ALMA Software Glossary [RD28], available online at the following URL: http://www.mma.nrao.edu/development/computing/docs/joint/draft/Glossary.htm.
The following list of abbreviations and acronyms is aimed to help the reader in recalling the extended meaning of the most important short expressions used in this document:
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ABM |
Antenna Bus Master |
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ACE |
ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html) |
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ACS |
ALMA Common Software |
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ACU |
Antenna Control Unit |
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AIPS++ |
Astronomical Information Processing System (http://aips2.nrao.edu/docs/aips++.html) |
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ALMA |
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/) |
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AMB |
ALMA Monitor and Control Bus |
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ANKA |
Synchrotron Radiation Source ANKA (http://www.fzk.de/anka) |
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API |
Application Programmatic Interface |
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CAN |
Controller Area Network |
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CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
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COTS |
Commercial Off The Shelf |
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CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
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ESO |
European Southern Observatory (http://www.eso.org) |
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FITS |
Flexible Image Transport Format |
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GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
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GTC |
Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (http://www.gtc.iac.es/) |
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HW |
Hardware |
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IDL |
CORBA Interface Definition Language |
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IIOP |
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
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ISO |
International Standardization Organisation |
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JDBC |
Java Database Connectivity |
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LAN |
Local Area Network |
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LCU |
Local Control Unit |
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M&C |
Monitor and Control |
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N/A |
Not Applicable |
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NRAO |
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (http://www.nrao.edu/) |
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OMG |
Object Management Group (http://www.omg.org/) |
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ORB |
Object Request Broker |
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OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection |
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OVRO |
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/) |
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RDBMS |
Relational Data Base Management System |
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RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
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SLA |
Subprogram Library A (Positional Astronomy Library) |
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SW |
Software |
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TAO |
The ACE ORB (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html) |
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TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
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TBD |
To Be Defined |
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TCL |
Tool Command Language (http://www.scriptics.com/resource/) |
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TCL (CORBA) |
CORBA Trader Constraint Language |
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TICS |
ALMA Test Interferometer Control Software |
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TPOINT |
Telescope Pointing Analysis System |
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UML |
Unified Modeling Language |
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URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier (http://www.w3.org/Addressing/) |
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URL |
Uniform Resource Locator (http://www.w3.org/Addressing/) |
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UTC |
Universal Time Coordinated |
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VME |
Versa Module Eurocard |
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VLT |
Very Large Telescope |
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WS |
Workstation |
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XML |
eXtensible Markup Language (http://www.w3.org/XML/) |