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ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL SCHEDULE


The GGF has two principal functions (plus an administrative function) being the , and ''Community Groups'' (restricted to community function area, not yet very common, this description needs work).

Three meetings are organized per year, divided (approximately evenly after averaging over a number of years) between North America, Europe and East Asia. (See schedule of events for more information). Many working groups organize face-to-face meetings in the interim.


STANDARDS PRODUCED BY GGF


The following major standards have been produced by GGF:



Implementations of GGF Standards


The first version of the DRMAA API has been implemented in Sun's Grid engine and also in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's program Condor. The separate Globus Alliance maintains an implementation of some of these standards through the Globus Toolkit . A future release of UNICORE will be based on the OGSA architecture and JSDL.


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