Production Terminology

Production Center

A production center defines any group of Production Cluster setup by any organization for the processing of data.

Production Cluster

A production cluster is a collection of one or more nodes (servers) that together brings an instance of the production center and run jobs of different workflows for several users.

Processing Service

A processing service is an online service to execute processing task hosted by a production center. E.g. WPS is a processing service.

Process

A process is a processing workflow that is made avalable via the processing service.

Job

A job is a reference to a generic instance of a Process tasked on a Production Center.