Grids: The Top Ten Questions
Jennifer M. Schopf and Bill Nitzberg
To Appear in the Special Issue of Scientific Programming 
on Grid Computing, 2002 

The design and implementation of a national computing
systems Grid has become a reachable goal for both computer
and computational scientists. A distributed infrastructure
capable of sophisticated computational functions can bring
many benefits to scientific work, but poses many challenges
to computer scientists, both technical and socio-political.
Technical challenges include having basic software tools,
functioning and pervasive security, and administration, while
socio-political issues include building a user community, adding
incentives for sites to be part of a user-centric environment,
and educating funding sources about the needs of this community.

This paper details the areas relating to Grid research that
we feel still need to be addressed to fully leverage the
advantages of the Grid.