**5. A glossary of acronyms**

ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment API: Application Programming Interface ASGC: Academia Sinica Grid Centre ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC Apparatus CAF: CDF Analysis Farm CDF: Collider Detector at Fermilab CKM: Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa CO: Consumer Operator CP: Charge-Parity DAQ: Date Acquisition DCAF: Decentralized CDF Analysis Farm DESY: Deutches Elecktronen SYnchrotron laboratory DH: Data Handling DOE: Department of Energy GUI: Graphic User Interface EGEE: Enabling Grid in e-Science EVO: Enabling Virtual Organization FBSNG: Farm Batch System Next Generation FTP: File Transfer Protocol GPU: Graphic Processing Unit HEP: High-Energy Physics KEK: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan KISTI: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information LCG: Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid LFC: Logical File Catalog LFN: Logical File Name LHC: Large Hadron Collider MSS: Mass Storage System OSG: Open Science Grid PFN: Physical File Name QCD: Quantum Chromo Dynamics SAM: Sequential Access through Metadata SciCo: Science Coordinator SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

SRM: Storage Resource Manager

VRVS: Virtual Room Videoconferencing System

WLCG: Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid

WMS: Workload Management System
