| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACL | Advanced Computing Laboratory |
| AWSE | Australian Winter Storm Experiment |
| PETA | People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals |
| ENDEX | Environmental Data Index |
| IPU | Instrument Processor Unit |
| RFP | Request For Proposal |
| LDA | Local Data Acquisition |
| MB | Megabits |
| BEST | Black Educational Science Trust |
| FLOP | Floating Point Operations |