perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Jeff W. Boote wrote:

pS-PS is an abbreviation for perfSONAR-PS. perfSONAR-PS is the name of the software package. perfSONAR-PS is not an abbreviation for anything. Once upon a time you might have said the 'PS' stood for perf-services, but since only a fraction of the software we are talking about is perl, that is not useful

Hmm... that should have been 'perl-services'. But hey, if it helps you to think of it as perf services. That works too. ;)

and we don't use it.

It is simply a name Jim. It does not propose to be illuminating in any way. Only identifying.

Jeff

On Feb 12, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Jim Warner wrote:

It would be helpful if the "overview" page for perfSONAR-PS at http://psps.perfsonar.net/overview.html spelled out what the abbreviation stands for.  Clearly one of the "PS" is for perfSONAR.  But the other one?  The overview page is careful to spell out all the other acronyms it uses -- except this one.  The way the overview offers to explain this is "perfSONAR-PS (pS-PS)" and I don't find that to be very illuminating.

Thanks.