Project description
Distributed computing infrastructure (DCI)
The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a sustainable model to maintain and evolve the middleware, fulfilling the requirements of the user communities.European scientific research has benefited recently from the increasing availability of computing and data infrastructures with unprecedented capabilities for large scale distributed initiatives. These infrastructures are largely defined by enabling middleware. After the necessary initial period of research and consolidation that has taken place in the past several years, the growing usage of these resources now requires the transformation of the computing infrastructures into a professionally managed and standardized service. It is of strategic importance for the establishment of permanent, sustainable research infrastructures to lower the technological barriers still preventing resource owners from federating the resources, and potential communities of tens of thousands of researchers from using grids as a commodity tool in their daily activities.The EMI project will make the realization of this vision possible by addressing a number of problems that still prevent users from easily accessing and using the whole capacity of the existing computing infrastructures. It will focus on improving the usability and accessibility for scientific users and the interoperability and manageability for service providers. The sustainability of the grid services will be directly addressed by replacing wherever possible proprietary technology with off-the-shelf components, improving their standardization and implementing industry standard quality assurance methodologies.
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
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Coordinator
1211 GENEVE 23
Switzerland
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Participants (25)
3008 Bern
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160 00 Praha 6
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01069 Dresden
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52428 Julich
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22607 Hamburg
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1165 Kobenhavn
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28006 Madrid
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15705 Santiago De Compostela
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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11523 Athina
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1132 BUDAPEST
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D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
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40033 Casalecchio Di Reno Bo
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00044 Frascati
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305 806 DAEJEON
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3526 KV Utrecht
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0313 Oslo
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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22100 LUND
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751 05 Uppsala
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04180 Kosice
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11528 TAIPEI
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SN2 1SZ SWINDON
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10561 Athina
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26504 Patras
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