%T The Architecture of the Minimum intrusion Grid (MiG) %A Brian Vinter %E Jan F. Broenink, Herman Roebbers, Johan P. E. Sunter, Peter H. Welch, David C. Wood %B Communicating Process Architectures 2005 %X This paper introduces the philosophy behind a new Grid model, the Minimum intrusion Grid, MiG. The idea behind MiG is to introduce a &\[sh]8216;fat&\[sh]8217; Grid infrastructure which will allow much &\[sh]8216;slimmer&\[sh]8217; Grid installations on both the user and resource side. This paper presents the ideas of MiG, some initial designs and finally a status report of the implementation.