OpenGridForum: Child of DARPA

Open Forum: Open Standards


"The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. Together we work to accelerate adoption of grid computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices." — Overview, Who We Are

"The Open Grid Forum accelerates grid adoption to enable business value and scientific discovery by providing an open forum for grid innovation and developing open standards for grid software interoperability." — The OGF Mission, ibid.

It is a subset of Open Source Software.

OGF is strong in the domestic American military industrial complex and globally in the European analog of the military industrial complex, but Canadian participation is notably absent. In Canada we have super-fast network links connecting campuses across the country.

This is where Ottawa agreed to front money to improve networking infrastructure between campuses across the nation so that research scientists in universities can collaborate in real-time with each other.

As well, other providers help with building infrastructure.