1. www.gridforum.org Data GridFTP WG  To develop a fast, secure, efficient transport mechanism for Grid applications  Bill Allcock,(allcock@mcs.anl.gov)allcock@mcs.anl.gov Data Replication RG  This Group explores issues related to management of replicated terabyte- and petabyte-sized data sets in grid computing environments  Ann Chervenak (annc@isi.edu)annc@isi.edu Persistent Archives RG  The development of an architecture for the construction of persistent archives which are conceptually equivalent to virtual data.  Reagan Moore (moore@sdsc.edu), Richard Marciano (marciano@sdsc.edu) Grid High Performance Network RG  To provide a focus for bridging Grid and Network research sectors  Jon Crowcroft (Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk) Bruce Lowekamp (lowekamp@cs.wm.edu) Area Directors: Peter Clarke (clarke@hep.ucl.ac.uk), Satoshi Sekiguchi (s.sekiguchi@aist.go.jp)

2. www.gridforum.org 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 (gregor@mcs.anl.gov)gregor@mcs.anl.gov  Michael Helm (helm@es.net) Relational Database Information Services (RDIS-RG)  Explore approaches to static and dynamic Grid information based on a relational data model.  Peter A. Dinda (pdinda@cs.northwestern.edu)pdinda@cs.northwestern.edu  Beth A. Plale (plale@cs.indiana.edu)plale@cs.indiana.edu  Steve Fisher (s.m.fisher@rl.ac.uk) Area Directors: Ian Baird (ibaird@platform.com), Domenico Laforenza (domenico.laforenza@cnuce.cnr.it)

3. www.gridforum.org Information Systems & Performance Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA-WG)  High-level architecture, components, and interfaces for interoperability of Grid monitoring systems  Warren Smith (wwsmith@arc.nasa.gov)wwsmith@arc.nasa.gov  Dan Gunter (dkgunter@lbl.gov)dkgunter@lbl.gov Discovery & Monitoring Event Description (DAMED-WG)  Define basic set of event descriptions with shared vocabulary  Jennifer Schopf (jms@mcs.anl.gov)jms@mcs.anl.gov  James Magowan (magowan@uk.ibm.com)magowan@uk.ibm.com  Dan Gunter (dkgunter@lbl.gov) Network Measurements (NM-WG)  Identify and characterize metrics useful to grid applications and middleware; develop standard metrics  Bruce Lowekamp (lowekamp@cs.wm.edu)lowekamp@cs.wm.edu  Brian Tierney (bltierney@lbl.gov)bltierney@lbl.gov Proposed: Grid Benchmarking (GB-RG)  Produce standard framework for specifying benchmarks and a set of prototype benchmark definitions  Rob Van der Wijngaart (wijngaar@nas.nasa.gov)wijngaar@nas.nasa.gov  Michael Frumkin (frumkin@nas.nasa.gov)frumkin@nas.nasa.gov

4. www.gridforum.org Scheduling and Resource Management Area Distributed Resource Mgmt Application API WG  Develop an API spec. for the submission of jobs  J. Tollesfrud (j.t.@sun.com)j.t.@sun.com  Hrabri Rajic (hrabri.rajic@intel.com) Scheduling Attributes WG  Define attributes to describe schedulers  Uwe.Schwiegelshohn (Uwe.Schwiegelshohn@udo.edu) Scheduler Dictionary WG  Define standard for common terms  Wolfgang Ziegler (wolfgang.ziegler@scai.fhg.de) Grid Resource Management Protocol (proposed) WG  Define standard protocol for advance reservations of CPU and network resources  Jon MacLaren (jon.maclaren@man.ac.uk)jon.maclaren@man.ac.uk  Volker Sander (v.sander@fz-juelich.de)v.sander@fz-juelich.de  Wolfgang Ziegler (Wolfgang.Ziegler@scai.fhg.de) Area Directors: Jennifer Schopf (jms@mcs.anl.gov) Bill Nitzberg (bill@computer.org)

5. www.gridforum.org GGF Security Area GridCP WG  Develop a Certificate Policy (CP) to promote and facilitate interoperable Grid PKIs  Randy Butler (butler@ncsa.uiuc.edu)butler@ncsa.uiuc.edu  Tony Genovese (tony@es.net) GSI WG  Promote and further develop GSI as underlying security fabric of Grids  Von Welch (welch@mcs.anl.gov) GGF4 Kerberos BOF (Proposed RG) Area Directors: Marty Humphrey (humphrey@cs.virginia.edu) Steve Tuecke (tuecke@mcs.anl.gov)

6. www.gridforum.org Applications, Programming and Models Area Applications and Test Beds  Bridge between application community and developers / directors of grid policies, standards and infrastructures.  Ed Seidel (eseidel@aei- potsdam.mpg.de), Tom Hinke (thinke@mail.arc.nasa.gov)eseidel@aei- potsdam.mpg.dethinke@mail.arc.nasa.gov 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 (jtowns@ncsa.uiuc.edu)jtowns@ncsa.uiuc.edu 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 (fox@mailer.scri.fsu.edu), Mary Thomas, (mthomas@sdsc.edu), Dennis Gannon, (gannon@cs.indiana.edu)fox@mailer.scri.fsu.edumthomas@sdsc.edugannon@cs.indiana.edu Area Directors: Jarek Nabrzyski (naber@man.poznan.pl),naber@man.poznan.pl Satoshi Matsuoka (matsu@is.titech.ac.jp)matsu@is.titech.ac.jp

7. www.gridforum.org 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 (stevens@mcs.anl.gov), Jason Leigh (spiff@evl.uic.edu), Mike Papka (papka@mcs.anl.gov) (stevens@mcs.anl.gov(spiff@evl.uic.edupapka@mcs.anl.gov Grid Advanced Programming Models  Identify and investigate programming methodologies that support the effective development of algorithms that perform well in grid environments.  Thierry Priol (Thierry.Priol@irisa.fr), David Bader (dbader@eece.unm.edu), Craig A. Lee (craig@aero.org)Thierry.Priol@irisa.frdbader@eece.unm.educraig@aero.org

8. www.gridforum.org 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 wejohnston@lbl.gov, Ian Foster itf@mcs.anl.gov, Reagan Moore moore@sdsc.edu wejohnston@lbl.gov itf@mcs.anl.gov moore@sdsc.edu Accounting Models RG  Identify needed account and accounting information, determine the needed mechanisms to pass this in formation  Bill Thigpen thigpen@nas.nasa.gov, Tom Hacker hacker@umich.eduthigpen@nas.nasa.govhacker@umich.edu 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, jafrey@ibm.com, Steve Tuecke, tuecke@mcs.anl.govjafrey@ibm.comtuecke@mcs.anl.gov Open Source Software WG  Examine approaches and models for open source software licensing  Mary Spada, spada@gridforum.org

9. www.gridforum.org 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, v.s.getov@westminster.ac.uk, Omer Rana, o.f.rana@cs.ac.uk, Eric Sharakan, eric.sharakan@east.sun.com v.s.getov@westminster.ac.uk  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 darrenp@cadencedarrenp@cadence