ExpertGlossary

When speaking about GridFTP transfers, parallelism refers to having multiple TCP connections between a single pair of network endpoints. This is used to improve performance of transfers on connections with light to moderate packet loss.

The address or the location of a copy of a file on a storage system.

A job scheduler mechanism supported by GRAM. For more information, see http://www.openpbs.org.

The private part of a key pair. Depending on the type of certificate the key corresponds to it may typically be found in $HOME/.globus/userkey.pem (for user certificates), /etc/grid-security/hostkey.pem (for host certificates) or /etc/grid-security/<service>/<service>key.pem (for service certificates).

For more information on possible private key locations see this.

A short lived certificate issued using a EEC. A proxy certificate typically has the same effective subject as the EEC that issued it and can thus be used in its place. GSI uses proxy certificates for single sign on and delegation of rights to other entities.

For more information about types of proxy certificates and their compatibility in different versions of GT, see http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Security/ProxyCertTypes.

The combination of a proxy certificate and its corresponding private key. GSI typically stores proxy credentials in /tmp/x509up_u<uid> , where <uid> is the user id of the proxy owner.

The public part of a key pair used for cryptographic operations (e.g. signing, encrypting).

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