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