EMI

Name

European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Area

Technology provider

Agreement

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 27 January 2011

About EMI

EMI is a collaboration of four major European middleware providers: ARC, dCache, gLite and UNICORE. The initiative aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, as part of the Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD). EMI also provides middleware to PRACE and other distributed computing infrastructures. EMI's goals also include:

extending the interoperability and integration between grids and other computing infrastructures,
strengthen the reliability and manageability of the services and
establish a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the middleware, ensuring it responds effectively to the requirements of the scientific communities relying on it.

Overview of the joint workplan

EGI and EMI will work together to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:

to provide robust, well-designed, user-centric services to scientific user communities
to define and monitor SLA for third-level support on incidents and requests
to accelerate the development of standards within production grid infrastructures
to disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each project’ s dissemination and communication activities such as joint events
to exchange ideas and collaborate on the definition of sustainability models
to collaborate in business relationships development