Appendix A Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
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verification and provides the Portable Operating System Interface
(POSIX).
name space The set of name-object pairs managed by the HPSS Name Server.
NDCG Non-DCE Client Gateway
NDAPI Non-DCE Client Application Program Interface
NERSC National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
Network File System Aprotocol developed by Sun Microsystems that allows transparent access
to files over a network.
NFS Network File System
NFS Daemon An HPSS server that provides access to HPSS name space objects and
bitfile data for client systems through the Network File System protocol.
NLS National Language Support
Non-DCE Client Gateway An HPSS server that provides access to the user calls of the HPSS Client
Application Program Interface for Non-DCE client applications.
Non-DCE Client Application AnHPSS library that offers the user calls of the HPSS Client API for client
Program Interface applications running on platforms which do not support either DCE or
Encina.
notification Anotice from one server to another about a noteworthy occurrence. HPSS
notifications include notices sent from other servers to SSM of changes in
managed object attributes, changes in tape mount information, and log
messages that are alarm, event, and status log record message types.
NS Name Server
NSL National Storage Laboratory
object See Managed Object.
ODM Object Data Manager
OFD Open File Descriptor
ONC Online Network Computing
OSF Open Software Foundation
OS/2 OperatingSystem (multi-tasking, single user) used on the AMU controller
PC
PB Petabyte (250)
PFTP Parallel File Transfer Protocol