Included here are technology reports and white papers that discuss issues, problems and solutions related to grid computing.

From Open Grid Services Infrastructure to WS-Resource Framework: Refactoring and Evolution
Karl Czajkowski, Ian Foster, Steve Tuecke (Globus Alliance); Don Ferguson, Jeff Frey, Steve Graham, Tom Maguire (IBM); David Snelling (Fujitsu)

This paper explains the evolution of OGSI to exploit WS-Addressing and other Web services standards. WSRF represents some syntactical modifications and a partitioning of OGSI but essential functions are unchanged.

MCNC Grid Computing Overview

This white paper explains the North Carolina Grid Computing Initiative that will grid-enable the North Carolina Research and Education Network.

Microsoft and Grid Computing
Jim Gray (Microsoft Research)

This paper outlines Microsoft's interest in grid computing. Jim Gray has been involved with SkyQuery and SkyQuery+.

Dynamic Systems Initiative Overview White Paper

This white paper explains a Microsoft initiative to automatic the creation and deployment of distributed systems. A key part is the System Definition Model language for creating blueprints of dynamic systems. One objective of DSI is to "virtualize" hardware resources.

Thoughts on Commercial Grid Standards
Charlie Cattlett (Chair, Global Grid Forum)

The author discusses the viability of the Global Grid Forum as a standards organizations for commercial grids.

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