The Grid Architecture Technical Working Group (TG1) focuses on architectural challenges from the FP5, FP6 and FP7 EU projects, gathering the requirements, from an architectural point of view, and investigating the transition from the Now-Grid to the Next Generation Grids. This group is one of the technical groups in Concertation Task 1 of grid related European Projects. The Eu-GridResearch Website provides extensive information of these collaboration tasks.

• The 3S project website provides a summary on the aim of the Technical Working Group.

Related documents:

• Open Grid Services Architecture, Glossary of Term, OGF Document GFD-I.044
• Defining the Grid: A Roadmap for OGSA Standards, OGF Document GFD-I.053
• The Open Grid Services Architecture, Architecture Document, OGF Document GFD-I.080
• The Physiology of the Grid An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration

Documents developed -or adopted- by the group:

• White Paper on State of the Art and Planned Developments in the context of FP6 Grid Projects (First white paper developed by TG1 on Grid Architecture) (September 2005)
• White Paper on Differences and Similarities of NextGRID, AkoGRIMO and SIMDAT Architectures in the context of FP6 Grid Projects (Second white paper developed by TG1 on Grid Architecture) (August 2006)
• NextGRID Conceptual Architecture v1.5
• White Paper on Architectural Descriptions of Grid Projects (Third white paper developed by TG1 on Grid Architecture) (August 2007)
• White Paper on Grid Projects Collaboration to NEXOF-RA Open Process (Fourth white paper developed by TG1 on Grid Architecture) (October 2008)

The following meetings have been held:

• Grid Technology Days, Brussels 2004
• Grid Technology Days, Brussels 2005 (Abstract and Agenda, Summary)
• Architecture TG1 Meeting, Athens 2006
• Grid Technology Days, Brussels 2006 (Summary of the Meeting, Presentations)
• Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group Workshop, Brussels 2007
• European Service, Software and Grid Technology Days 2007, Brussels (Agenda and Introduction, Presentations, Conclusions of TG1 Session)
• 3th Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group Meeting at NESSI GA, Brussels 2007
• OGF23 Session on Future Perspective Workshop: perspectives and point of collaborations among Grid roadmaps and Strategic Research Agendas (June 6, 2008)
• Internet of Services 2008. Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects (September 23, 2008). Session on Service Architectures and Grid Architecture.

Contacts for TG1:

• TG1 Chair: Juanjo Hierro (NESSI-Grid Coordinator), Telefonica I+D, jhierro [at] tid [dot] es
• Additional Contact: Mike Fisher, BT Group, mike [dot] fisher [at] bt [dot] com

TG1 is being coordinated by NESSI-Grid in the context of the Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group. For more info you can contact the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for SOI-NWG:

• Ignacio M. Llorente, UCM, llorente [at] dacya [dot] ucm [dot] es