UNICOREpro Terms and Conventions

These are the most frequently used Terms in the UNICOREpro context:

Term

Description

Usite

UNICOREpro site, a site offering UNICOREpro server and target system(s)

Vsite

execution system or cluster of execution systems at a Usite, that share Xlogins, Uspaces and Xspaces

Ulogin

UNICOREpro User Identification, part of the users X.509 certificate

Xlogin

User identification at a target system

SSO

Site Specific Security Object, contains information for additional user authentication

Ujob

UNICOREpro job, the specification of a job created by the user client to be sent to the primary site

AJO

abstract job object, internal representation of an Ujob

Job-Group

(Part of) an Ujob to be sent to a (different) target system

Job

Part of an Ujob to be translated into a batch job for a target system

sub-AJO

part of an AJO corresponding to a Job-Group

NJS

Network Job Supervisor, Scheduler and incarnation component

Client NJS

Network Job Supervisor which sends a Job-Group to a Server-NJS

Server NJS

Network Job Supervisor which receives a Job-Group from a Client-NJS

Gateway

UNICOREpro Server component to talk to UNICOREpro clients and the Usites NJS

TSI

UNICOREpro Target System Interface, privileged component running on target system

Uspace

UNICOREpro file space,temporary job directory for an Ujob

Xspace

Unix file space accessible by an Xlogin

Nspace

User file space at the user`s local workstation running the UNICOREpro client

Import

Data transfer from Xspace to Uspace or from Nspace to Uspace

Export

Data transfer from Uspace to Xspace or from Uspace to Nspace

Transfer

Data transfer Uspace to Uspace of the same Ujob at different Usites

UNICOREpro Server

component offering UNICOREpro services like NJS, SAFE etc

UNICOREpro Client

User interface with several components like JPA, JMC, NIFTI etc.