The project was conceived by the UK Database Task Force and is working closely with the
Global Grid Forum DAIS-WG [19,20] and the Globus team.
The University of Edinburgh's Parallel Computing Center, along with staff from the National e-Science Centre at Edinburgh, also play a leading role in the
Global Grid Forum's Database Access and Integration Services working group, while the PDC co-founded the European Grid Support Centre and the Nordic Grid Consortium.
The forward-looking architecture is aligned with the direction of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) specification endorsed by the
Global Grid Forum (GGF).
In addition to the eXe-Grid project the Fraunhofer Resource Grid is engaged in the current activities to establish a German e-Science community called D-Grid (http://www.d-grid.de) which has been publicly anounced at the 10th
Global Grid Forum (http:// www.gridforum.orq) in Berlin by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Mrs.
SAS is already actively involved in other standards organizations such as the
Global Grid Forum, Java Community Process, Object Management Group, and XML/A Council and Data Mining Group.
United Devices is a corporate sponsor of the
Global Grid Forum (GGF, www.gridforum.org ), an international forum where the OGSA and other Grid and peer-to-peer related standards are being developed.
There is activity within the
Global Grid Forum for an OGSA interface for portals.