Glossary of Terms



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Glossary of Terms

 

BFD
Bulk File Distribution
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
CRPC
Center for Research in Parallel Computing
DNS
Domain Name System
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GAMS
Guide to Available Mathematical Software
Harvest
An information discovery and access system
HPCC
High Performance Computing Consortium
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IP
Internet Protocol
LAPACK
A linear algebra software package
LIFN
Location Independent File Name
Lycos
A World Wide Web search engine
MD5
A message digest algorithm
Mosaic
A World Wide Web browser
NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Netlib
A mathematical software repository
NSE
National Software Exchange
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy, a public key encryption package
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
URC
Uniform Resource Citation
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
URN
Uniform Resource Name
WebCrawler
A World Wide Web search engine
WWW
World Wide Web
WWWW
World Wide Web Worm, a World Wide Web search engine



Jack Dongarra
Mon Jan 30 10:42:57 EST 1995