UNICORE Terms and Conventions

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

Term

Description

Usite

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

Vsite

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

Ulogin

UNICORE 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

UNICORE 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

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

TSI

UNICORE Target System Interface, privileged component running on target system

Uspace

UNICORE 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 UNICORE 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

UNICORE Server

component offering UNICORE services like NJS, SAFE etc

UNICORE Client

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