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A

  • App: A GUI interface in the Discovery Environment that uses a Tool (Docker Container)
  • AVU: Attribute-Value-Unit as components for metadata.

B

  • beta: A new app that has not yet been launched 50 times (seen as a symbol in CyVerse DE apps)

C

  • CLI: command line interface
  • container: A virtualization of an operating system run within an isolated user space. A running instance of and image.
  • CyberDuck a stand alone program for upload|download of data from remote services cyberduck.io

D

  • Discovery Environment (DE) CyVerse data science workbench de.cyverse.org
  • Docker: is an open source software platform to create, deploy and manage virtualized application containers on a common operating system (OS), with an ecosystem of allied tools. A program that runs and handles life-cycle of containers and images

E

F

  • function:

G

  • git: software program for working with version control system
  • GitHub: a website for hosting git repositories

H

I

  • instance: a single virtul machine
  • image: self-contained, read-only ‘snapshot’ of your applications and packages, with all their dependencies
  • image registry: a storage and content delivery system, holding named images, available in different tagged versions
  • iCommands command line interface for working with an iRODS data store
  • iRODS: the Integrated Rule Oriented Data System https://irods.org/

J

K

  • kernel:

L

M

  • multi-thread(ing): 1) running an analysis across multiple cores, or 2) splitting a file up into chunks and sending over multiple connections (threads)

N

O

P

Q

R

  • repo(sitory): in terms of git it is a /folder within a project which stores code and the version controlled changes.

S

  • shell: is a command line interface program that runs other programs (may be complex, technical programs or very simple programs such as making a directory). These simple, stand-alone programs are called commands.

T

  • tar:
  • Tool: Used in the Discovery Environment a Docker Container that is pulled from a trusted registry, can be non-interactive (CLI) or interactive (GUI)

U

V

  • virtual machine: is a software computer that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications

W

  • workspace: (vs. repo)

X

  • XML:

Y

Z

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