European Middleware Initiative
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
—
Call for proposals
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
34668/2012-32
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
European Middleware Initiative
Annotation in Czech
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 communitiesof 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.
Scientific branches
R&D category
IF - RDI infrastructure
CEP classification - main branch
IN - Informatics
CEP - secondary branch
IN - Informatics
CEP - another secondary branch
IN - Informatics
OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2012
Realization period - end
Apr 30, 2013
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Mar 20, 2013
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 30, 2014
Finance
Total approved costs
2,056 thou. CZK
Public financial support
2,056 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK