Open Grid Forum Maintains Focus on the 2010 Goal

Grid and grid-like technologies -- including virtualization, automation,
service oriented architecture (SOA) and distributed computing -- are
all part of the IT infrastructure solution being used by leading
organizations around the world to enable this knowledge-based, global
economy. The Open Grid Forum is a standards development organization
dedicated to developing open standards for grid interoperability. OGF
serves as a global forum where the grid community gathers to identify
common requirements, develop best practices and share use cases. As a
community-initiated not-for-profit organization, OGF involves more than
300 organizations from 50 countries. OGF has extensive engagement with
national and regional grid initiatives in 25 countries, including
TeraGrid and Open Science Grid in the U.S., EGEE in Europe, NAREGI in
Japan, APAC in Australia, and UK eScience in the UK. Leading hardware,
software, and solutions vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, Oracle, and Platform Computing are also actively engaged.
OGF aims to have scientific and commercial organizations build
operational grids using OGF-defined, standards-based components by
2010. This work is well underway, however much more effort is needed
to develop and mature specifications. A June 2007 OGF roadmap document
('Technical Strategy for the Open Grid Forum 2007-2010') identifies
six high priority capabilities including grid security, application
provisioning, job submission, file movement, data provisioning and
grid application programming interfaces (APIs). OGF recognizes that
it takes cooperation and collaboration across the entire distributed
computing community to effectively build open standards. For instance,
many OGF standards are based on the foundational protocols, information,
and web services standards developed by other standards development
organizations, including W3C, IETF, SNIA, DMTF, and OASIS. OGF
proactively engages in liaison activities with these organizations and
they, in turn, look to OGF as uniquely chartered to define
interoperable grid architectures, specifications and community practices. More Information