Data GridFTP WG  To develop a fast, secure, efficient transport mechanism for Grid applications  Bill Data Replication RG  This Group explores issues related to management of replicated terabyte- and petabyte-sized data sets in grid computing environments  Ann Chervenak Persistent Archives RG  The development of an architecture for the construction of persistent archives which are conceptually equivalent to virtual data.  Reagan Moore Richard Marciano Grid High Performance Network RG  To provide a focus for bridging Grid and Network research sectors  Jon Crowcroft Bruce Lowekamp Area Directors: Peter Clarke Satoshi Sekiguchi

Information Systems & Performance GIS-WG  Three activities of the original GIS Working Group are under evaluation toward creating one or more new GIS working groups.  Grid Object Specification (GOS) Provide simple mechanisms for describing Grid entities  Grid Notification Framework (GNF) Provide generic notification framework for propagation of state data about Grid entities  Metacomputing Directory Services (MDS) Specification for MDS  Gregor von Laszewski  Michael Helm Relational Database Information Services (RDIS-RG)  Explore approaches to static and dynamic Grid information based on a relational data model.  Peter A. Dinda  Beth A. Plale  Steve Fisher Area Directors: Ian Baird Domenico Laforenza

Information Systems & Performance Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA-WG)  High-level architecture, components, and interfaces for interoperability of Grid monitoring systems  Warren Smith  Dan Gunter Discovery & Monitoring Event Description (DAMED-WG)  Define basic set of event descriptions with shared vocabulary  Jennifer Schopf  James Magowan  Dan Gunter Network Measurements (NM-WG)  Identify and characterize metrics useful to grid applications and middleware; develop standard metrics  Bruce Lowekamp  Brian Tierney Proposed: Grid Benchmarking (GB-RG)  Produce standard framework for specifying benchmarks and a set of prototype benchmark definitions  Rob Van der Wijngaart  Michael Frumkin

Scheduling and Resource Management Area Distributed Resource Mgmt Application API WG  Develop an API spec. for the submission of jobs  J. Tollesfrud  Hrabri Rajic Scheduling Attributes WG  Define attributes to describe schedulers  Uwe.Schwiegelshohn Scheduler Dictionary WG  Define standard for common terms  Wolfgang Ziegler Grid Resource Management Protocol (proposed) WG  Define standard protocol for advance reservations of CPU and network resources  Jon MacLaren  Volker Sander  Wolfgang Ziegler Area Directors: Jennifer Schopf Bill Nitzberg

GGF Security Area GridCP WG  Develop a Certificate Policy (CP) to promote and facilitate interoperable Grid PKIs  Randy Butler  Tony Genovese GSI WG  Promote and further develop GSI as underlying security fabric of Grids  Von Welch GGF4 Kerberos BOF (Proposed RG) Area Directors: Marty Humphrey Steve Tuecke

Applications, Programming and Models Area Applications and Test Beds  Bridge between application community and developers / directors of grid policies, standards and infrastructures.  Ed Seidel potsdam.mpg.de), Tom Hinke Grid User Services  Foster common understanding of user and support staff requirements in a grid environment; venue for sharing resources; facilitates communication for grid activities between users, support staff, and developers.  John Towns Grid Computing Environments  Contribute to the coherence and interoperability of frameworks, portals, PSE's, and other Grid- based computing environments by exploring where standards to integrate technology implementations and solutions.  Geoffrey Fox Mary Thomas, Dennis Gannon, Area Directors: Jarek Nabrzyski Satoshi Matsuoka

Applications, Programming and Models Area Applications and Test Beds  Exploring human-centered techniques and technologies for facilitating interactive, collaborative, and immersive access of Grid resources from any where and at any time.  Rick Stevens Jason Leigh Mike Papka Grid Advanced Programming Models  Identify and investigate programming methodologies that support the effective development of algorithms that perform well in grid environments.  Thierry Priol David Bader Craig A. Lee

Architecture Area Grid Protocol Architecture RG  provide a conceptual framework for discussing the interrelationships, completeness, and minimality of the protocol approach to Grid services  William Johnston Ian Foster Reagan Moore Accounting Models RG  Identify needed account and accounting information, determine the needed mechanisms to pass this in formation  Bill Thigpen Tom Hacker Open Grid Service Infrastructure WG  review and refine the Grid Service Specification and other documents that derive from this specification, including Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) infrastructure-related technical specifications and supporting informational documents  Jeff Frey, Steve Tuecke, Open Source Software WG  Examine approaches and models for open source software licensing  Mary Spada,

Architecture Area Service Management Frameworks Research Group  address the technical issues and management concerns in the emerging ‘Service Oriented Grid Computing’ research community related to dynamism, discovery and federation, autonomous composition of services  Vladimir Getov, Omer Rana, Eric Sharakan,  In transition from “Jini” WG to SMF RG) New Productivity Initiative Working Group  define the interoperability standards that allow effective multi-vendor cluster and Grid distributed resource management solutions  Darren Pulsipher