| Term
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Description
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| APACHE
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A software for running a webserver
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| CALM/Cloud account lifecycle management
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Cloud lifecycle management
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| CEPH
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Distributed data storage platform, our standard storage software on the cloud
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| CEPHFS/CEPH File System
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CEPH storage that can be mounted for e.g. data sharing on multiple instances/VMs.
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| Compute Cloud
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A flavour of instances/VMs which will be running for a limited time and may have high CPU/memory requirements during the entire lifespan.
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| CVMFS
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A distributed read-only content distribution system, often used for managing software.
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| Dashboard
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The web portal, named "Horizon" for our OpenStack clouds, for viewing and managing a user's cloud resources.
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| Ephemeral disk
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Virtual disk files, associated (and destroyed) with an instance/VM.
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| Flavour
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The OpenStack term for defining the compute, memory, and storage capacity of a new instance/VM
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| Floating IP
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An IP address that can be associated with an instance/VM to allow external access
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| FTP
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An obsolete file transfer protocol (should not be used for new deployments)
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| Horizon
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See "dashboard"
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| Host
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The physical resources supporting an instance/VM
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| Image
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Files which contain the contents of a virtual disk, often a base operating system in the creation of a volume or ephemeral disk
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| Instance
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A virtual server in the cloud infrastructure. Also known as a Virtual Machine (VM)
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| IPV6/Internet Protocol Version 6
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| Object Storage
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Persistent storage space for large amounts of data. Typically read access only, e.g. images and data sets.
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| OpenStack
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The software suite used on Compute Canada clouds to control hardware resources such as computers, storage and networking
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| Persistent Cloud
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An instance/VM anticipated to run indefinitely, such as web servers, database servers, etc. Typically has low or bursty CPU requirements.
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| RAS/Rapid Access Service
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Program allowing PI's to request and receive a given amount of Cloud resources
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| RAC/Resource Allocation Competition
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Program via which PIs can request additional resources
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| S3/Simple Storage Service
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A type of object storage
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| Security Group
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A set of rules controlling network traffic to and from an instance/VM
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| Snapshot
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A copy of a volume that can be used as a backup or to launch another instance/VM.
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| SSL/Secure Sockets Layer
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Protocol to allow encrypted communications over networks
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| SWIFT
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Another type of object storage
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| Tenant
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A group or user's allocation of cloud resources (now called a Project)
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| VCPU/Virtual central processing unit
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An instance/VM can have one or more CPUs assigned to it, each of which is seen as a single physical CPU core by the operating system.
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| VGPU/Virtual graphics processing unit
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An instance/VM can have one or more VGPUs assigned to it.
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| Volume
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An allocation of storage resources that can be attached or detached to/from an instance/VM, exposed as a block device (a virtual disk).
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| VM/Virtual Machine
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See "instance"
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