SAN DIEGO, CA -- Entropia Inc., the leader in PC grid distributed computing solutions, announced today that it supports the new Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) standards specification effort. The OGSA initiative, announced yesterday by IBM and Globus at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto, is a developing set of specifications and standards that combine the benefits of grid computing and Web services. The OGSA specifications extend web services standards, such as XML, WSDL and SOAP, with grid standards developed by the Globus Project(TM). The Globus Project is an open source activity led by Ian Foster of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California. Entropia has previously announced its partnership with Globus and its plans to integrate with the Globus Toolkit. "Entropia believes that OGSA will provide a shared framework for integration of sophisticated Grid services, enabling customers to reap the benefits of Grid computing more rapidly. OGSA will enable a wealth of commercial applications to be added to the scientific applications already available on Grid systems," said Andrew Chien, chief technical officer and co-founder of Entropia. "OGSA is a landmark in the rapid convergence of web services and grid technology, and it will lead to an explosion in e-business and e-science applications," he said. Entropia provides an open platform for enabling applications to be distributed across grids of PCs. Entropia empowers enterprise customers to leverage the latent computing power of their existing networks of personal computers in order to accelerate computationally intensive applications. The OGSA standards will provide a foundation for seamlessly and easily integrating such desktop grids with an enterprise's commercial computing infrastructure. OGSA will make it easier to integrate Entropia-enabled grids of desktop PCs with grids of high performance computing resources and make it easier to integrate grid-based applications with other applications into comprehensive production workflows. "We are pleased that Entropia has chosen to support OGSA, as widespread acceptance by vendors accelerates progress towards the Grid vision of dynamic, flexible combination of resources into virtual organizations," said Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute and Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago. "Desktop grids are an important part of the grid picture because they comprise the majority of untapped computing capability in enterprises," they said. For more information visit www.globus.org or www.entropia.com