AIDS: Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (Disease)
AC@H: AfricanClimate@Home aka ACAH, refined research on this continents' climate, started Sep.03'07 (WCG Project)
ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface for power management (PC Component)
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Internet)
AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port for attaching Graphics cards to mobo (PC Component)
ALL: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia form of blood cancer (Disease)
ARC: AIDS Related Complex, other symptoms and side effect from AIDS (Disease)
AP: Access Point, also see WLAN (Networking)
ASCII: American Standard Code f...mation Interchange (Other)
ATA: AT Attachment, a type of Hard Disk interface (PC Component)
AV: Anti-Virus (Security)
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System (PC Component)
BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastruc...b>etwork Computing
BPD: Border Protection Device , e.g. a Firewall (Security)
BSE: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka Mad Cow Disease, also see CJD (Other)
BSG: BOINC Simplified Graphical User Interface or Simple View, in version 5.8 and higher (BOINC)
BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix variation (OS)
CA: Community Advisor (Those posting in the Start Here Forum)
caBIG™: cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™ (Organisation)
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Organization)
CJD: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , also see BSE (Disease)
CNS: Central Nervous System, largest part of the nervous system (Other)
CPID: Cross Project Identifier (BOINC)
CUDA: Compute Unified Device Architecture (Computing)
DB: Database (Data Management)
DC: Distributed Computing aka Grid Computing or Parallel Computing Resource (PCR)
DCF: Duration Correction Factor, also known as rDCF (BOINC)
DDDT: Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, aimed @ Hemorrhaging & Yellow Fever, Hepa-C & West Nile, started Aug.21,'07 (WCG Project)
DDOS: Distributed Denial Of Service (Internet)
DDR: Double-Data Rate, a Type of RAM with variations as DDR2 and DDR3 (PC Component)
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, is a protocol used by networked computers (Networking)
DLL: Dynamic Link Library (OS/Program Component)
DMA: Direct Memory Access, a data transfer acceleration technology (PC Function)
DMD: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, hereditary muscle diseases causing progressive muscle weakness (disease)
DMZ: Demilitarized Zone , part of hardware Firewalls (Security)
DNS: Domain Name Service or System or Server (Networking)
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line, also see ADSL(Internet)
DTIM: Delivery Traffic Indication Message (Networking)
EDF: Earliest Deadline First (BOINC)
ETC: Estimated Time to Completion, computed TC to finish a work unit shown Task Tab (BOINC)
FA@H: Fight AIDS @ Home aka FAAH (WCG Project)
FCG: Fiocruz Comparative Genomics aka Genome Comparison (WCG Project)
FLOPS: Floating Point Operations Per Second also see MIPS (PC Performance)
FW: Firewall (Security)
GB: Gigabyte , 1,000 million bytes (
GC: Genome Comparison, see FCG (WCG Project)
GHz: GigaHertz , measure of frequency (Other)
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time, also see UTC (Other)
GPFS: General Parallel File System, a high-performance shared-disk clustered file system (Servers)
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit DC Sciences using the display card (Computing)
GUI: Graphical User Interface (Software)
HACPM: High Availability Clustered MultiProcessing (Computing)
HBV: Hepatitis B Virus also known Hepa B, a liver inflammation (Disease)
HCC: Help Conquer Cancer (WCG Project)
HCMD: Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (WCG Project)
HCV: Hepatitis C Virus also known Hepa C, aliver inflamation (Disease)
HDC: Help Defeat Cancer (WCG Project)
Hex: Hexadecimal , base 16 (Other)
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, see AIDS and the FA@H project (Disease)
HPF2: Human Proteome Folding, Phase 2 (WCG Project)
HR: Homogeneous Redundancy, ensures all quorum tasks go to same systems - OS and or CPU brands/families (BOINC)
HSTDF: Highest Short Term Debt First, see STD (BOINC)
HT: HyperThreading , officially HTT™, a simultaneous processingtechnology (Other)
IAP: Internet Access Provider, see ISP (Internet)
IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics, see ATA, a type of Hard Disk interface (PC Component)
IP: Internet Protocol address. Variations are IPv4, IPv6 (Internet)
ISA: Instruction Set Architecture (Programming)
IRQ: Interrupt Request (PC Function)
ISP: Internet Service Provider (Internet)
JPG: See JPEG (Other)
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group , image storage format (Other)
LIM: Leave In Memory, Interrupted tasks held in memory due e.g. scheduled project switching (BOINC)
LTD: Long Term Debt (BOINC)
MAXDo: Molecular Association via Xross Docking simulations used in the HCMD Research (Project)
MD: Muscular Dystrophy, covered by the HCMD project. See also DMD (disease)
MHz: MegaHertz , measure of frequency (Other)
MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second also see FLOPS (PC Performance)
mobo: mother board (PC Component)
MS: Multiple Sclerosis, chronic inflammation of the Central Nervous System effecting muscle functionality (Disease)
NCI: National Cancer Institute (Organization)
NFCR: National Foundation for Cancer Research (Organization)
NFS: Network File System, any computer file system that supports sharing of e.g. files (Servers)
NTLM: New Technology LANMAN an authentication protocol (Networking)
NUMA: Non-Uniform Memory Architecture Multi-Processor Memory Management (PC Component)
OP: Openings Post or Original Poster (Other)
OPHID: Online Predicted Human Interaction Database Information Resource (Other)
OS: Operating System
OS-X: Mac/Apple Operating System (OS)
PDB: ProteinDataBank (Research Db)
[b[PFVPrototype Foamy Virus (See FAAH Research)
PNG: Portable Network Graphics, image storage format (Other)
POST: Power On Self Test, routine performed on hardware at start of Computer (PC Feature)
PPH: Points Per Hour, sum of benchmark values divided by +/-480 (BOINC)
PRRS: Potentially Runnable Resource Share, to be documented (BOINC)
PV: Pending Validation, an approval status of Work Units (BOINC)
RAC: Recent Average Credit (BOINC)
RAPDF: Residue-specific All-atom condi...iminatory Function, See Nutrituous Rice f/t World Project (Science Algorithm)
RAM: Random Access Memory (PC component)
RDCF: Results Duration Correction Factor , see DCF (BOINC)
ROM: Read Only Memory (PC Component)
RPC: Remote Procedure Call (BOINC)
RS: Result Status & Explained (Statistics)
RSI: Repetitive Strain Injury due e.g. intense/wrong use of mouse or keyboard (PC Component)
RSS: Really Simple Syndication used by newsfeeds, e.g. by WCG (Internet)
SATA: Serial ATA, also see ATA (PC Component)
RTFM: Read The Fine Manual , when searching for an answer! (Other)
RtR: Ready to Report, step in the Result reporting sequence (BOINC)
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface, type of Hard Disk interface standard (PC Component)
SMP: Symmetric Multi Processing, Computer architecture (Other)
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol, nka Service Oriented Architecture Protocol (Networking)
SQL: Structured Query Language (Programming)
STD: Short Term Debt (BOINC)
TC: 'To Completion' Time or Time to Completion (BOINC)
TMA: Tissue Micro Array instrument, part of HDC Research (WCG Project)
TSC: Time Stamp Counter, method to improve accuracy of processor speed measurement (CPU Feature)
TTL: Time To Live (Networking)
UCS: Universal Character Set (Other)
UD: United Devices (aka WCG Agent)
UICC: Union Internationale Contre le Cancer , International Union Against Cancer (Organization)
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply (Hardware)
URL: Universal Resource Locator (Internet)
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time, also see GMT (Internet)
VM: Virtual Memory aka Swap File (OS Function)
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium (Internet)
WAP: Wireless Access Protocol used for WCG data transmission to e.g. cel phones (Internet)
WCG: World Community Grid (DC)
WFP: Work Fetch Policy (BOINC)
WHO: World Health Organization (Organization)
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network (Networking)
WRF: Work Request Factor used to increase work buffering (BOINC)
WU: Work Unit aka Task or Assignment or Job
XML eXtensible Markup Language (Programming)
XRC: X-Ray Crystallography method for determining the structure of molecules (Science)