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