The OntoSPM Collaborative Action has been in operation for 24 months, with a growing dedicated membership. Its main result is a modular ontology, undergoing constant updates and extensions, based on the experts' suggestions. It remains an open collaborative action, which always welcomes new contributors and applications.

Although Service-Oriented principles have been widely adopted by High Throughput Computing infrastructure designers, the integration between SOA and HTC is made difficult by legacy. j GASW is a framework for wrapping legacy scientific applications as Web Services and integrating them into an intensive computing-aware SOA framework. It maps complex I/O data structures to command lines and enables dynamic allocation of computing resources; including execution on local hosts or on grid infrastructures; data transfer management and support of non-functional concerns.