Special section: Selected papers from the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on grid computing (Grid2006)

The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006) was held in Barcelona, on September 28–29. After starting as a workshop at the International Conference on High Performance Computing in 2000, and spending five years as a workshop associated with the Supercomputing conference series, GridXY has matured to a stand-alone conference. The program for this conference covered all areas of Grid computing research. Papers were solicited that addressed a wide range of topics including: