The authors can be contacted at contact@gridwisetech.com.

Pawel Plaszczak

President at GridwiseTech, an independent consulting in Grid computing.

Pawel’s international professional experience includes CERN, British Telecommunications and Argonne National Laboratory. Having earned his Msc in Computer Science in 2000, he later worked in Ian Foster’s Globus Project, fundamental in the history of Grid movement.

In 2003 Pawel left Globus to found GridwiseTech and work for customers who are the earliest adopters of Grid computing. Under his leadership, Gridwise has also been cooperating with numerous vendors and remains active in the standards community, helping to continue the growth of the open specifications which the Grid is built upon.

Rich Wellner, Jr.

an Enterprise Architect with Univa Corporation.

He has been involved in the Grid community helping a number of efforts to standardize different core protocols and continues to be active in both the development of new standards and building systems centered upon them. Prior to the emergence of the Grid he spent a technology cycle in other distributed object spaces using things like Java, CORBA and DCOM.

Acknowledgements

We have been fortunate to work with a large variety of talented people, all of whom were instrumental in the production of this book: people who agreed to allow us to publicly talk about their projects, those who allowed us to reference their work anonymously, those who provided introductions, and others doing interesting work.
The Grid community is one of tens of thousands of developers from around the world. Many people contributed to this effort; any omissions from the list that follows are inadvertent.
We want to give warm thanks to them all.
In the parentheses we indicate the subject of our consultations.

• Miha Ahronovitz, Sun Microsystems (Sun N1 Grid Engine)
• Charles Bacon (Globus details)
• Doug Barry, Barry & Associates (Web services, plus advice on writing in general)
• John Breshnahan (data transport)
• Marian Bubak, Cyfronet (the CrossGrid project)
• Randy Butler, NCSA (NEESgrid)
• Lisa Childers (Timeline and Globus information)
• Karl Czajkowski (execution management)
• Charlie Dibsdale, DS&S (Rolls-Royce and DS&S use case)
• David F. Dobel, DS&S (Rolls-Royce and DS&S use case)
• Agnieszka Dyduch-Cichocka, Deloitte (IT risk management)
• Jakub Dziwisz, Gridwise (Grid portals)
• Tomasz Farana, MGI (investment advisory practices)
• Tom Finholt, University of Michigan (NEESgrid)
• Mike Fisher, BT (Web services)
• Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago (reviewed all material)
• Patrick Fuhrmann (storage systems)
• Robert Gaffaney (reviewer)
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC and formerly Sun (comprehensive guidance on several subjects)
• Sven Graupner, HP (professional review of the entire material)
• Scott Gose, Argonne Laboratory and University of Chicago (The Grid Report)
• Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia and formerly Avaki (Avaki and Legion)
• Urs Hoelzle, Google (Google)
• Lothlórien Homet, Morgan Kaufmann (useful advice on writing in general)
• Paul Hubbard, San Diego Supercomputer Center (embedded systems tutorials and other training)
• Hiroki Inatomi, IDG Japan (The Grid World 2004)
• Tom Jackson, University of York (White Rose Grid, DAME)
• Fred James, Sun Microsystems (use of Sun Grid Engine in Synopsys)
• Carl Kesselman, Information Science Institute in University of Southern California (reviewed all material and provided many constructive remarks)
• Ian Lumb, Platform, then Scali (thorough and professional review of the entire material)
• Nolin LeChasseur, Platform (Human Factors in Grids)
• Joseph Link (data transfer)
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (the Ninf project)
• Sam Meder (security)
• Rich Miller (business case)
• Robert Niedziela, Sabre (Sabre GDS)
• Jason Novotny, GridSphere (Grid portals)
• Robert Ortega, Wachovia (Wachovia Grid experience)
• Simon Oxlade, DS&S (very thorough and useful corrections of material on Rolls-Royce and DS&S use case)
• Pattison, Louise (Rolls-Royce and DS&S use case)
• Laura Pearlman (security and retrofitting applications)
• Timur Perelmutov (storage system discussions)
• Don Petravick (early Grid adopter from Fermilab)
• Ruth Pordes (architect of early Argonne/Fermilab collaboration)
• Bernadeta Raczkiewicz, Gridwise (style corrections)
• Ann Redelfs, GridToday (GridToday04)
• Peggy Rosenthal , Sabre (very helpful comments on Sabre GDS)
• Michael Russel, Gridsphere (Grid portals)
• Borja Satomayor (General information and a great tutorial)
• Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST (the Ninf project and the Japanese perspective on Grid computing)
• Brad Shea, Wachovia (Wachovia Grid experience)
• Sriram Sitaraman, Synopsys (Synopsys Grid experience)
• Jim Snow, OGI School of Science & Engineering (Google)
• Bill Spencer, NCSA (comprehensive interview on NEESgrid and earthquake science perspective)
• Andy Stubbings, BestSystems (the Japanese Grid activities, The Grid World 2004)
• Michal Turala, IFJ (CrossGrid, and other general advice)
• Alan Walker, Sabre (Sabre GDS)
• Vicky White (early Grid adopter from Fermilab)
• Krzysztof Wilk, Gridwise (general help)
• Scott Yates, MCNC (MCNC Grid use case)