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Glossary

The purpose of this document is define the specific terms which should be used for various concepts, with the goal of establishing consistency throughout documentation and source code.

  • "Isle" - The name of this project, which is a proper noun and so should always be capitalized.

  • "isle" - The name of the binary or program produced by the Isle project. isle is the name of the file itself, and so is always lower-case.

  • "host" - A computer or device on which isle is run.

  • "isle network", "network" - A collection of hosts which communicate and share resources with each other via the Isle project.

    • "garage cluster" - Garage is one of the sub-processes which isle is able to run. These garage process connect together to form a cluster. We use the term "cluster" in the context of garage to stay consistent with garage's documentation and command-line.
  • "user" - A person who takes part in the usage, operation, or administration of an isle network.