Transcript European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

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European Middleware Initiative (EMI)
Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
Project Director
Primary Objectives
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Consolidate
Consolidate the existing middleware distribution simplifying
services and components to make them more sustainable
(including use of off-the-shelf and commercial components
whenever possible)
Evolve
Evolve the middleware services/functionality following the
requirements of infrastructures and users, mainly focusing on
operational, standardization and interoperability aspects
Support
Reactively and proactively maintain the middleware
distribution to keep it in line with the growing infrastructure
usage
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Project Partners
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Technical Areas
Compute Services
A-REX, UAS-Compute, WMS, CREAM, MPI, etc
Data Services
Dedicate
teamsDPM,
of LFC, FTS,
dCache, StoRM,
UAS-Data,
experts
Hydra,
AMGA, etc
Security Services
Fully responsible
UNICORE Gateway,
UVOS/VOMS/VOMSfor
development,
Admin, ARGUS, SLCS, glExec, Gridsite,
maintenance
Proxyrenewal,and
etc
Product Teams
unit/system
testing
Logging and Bookkeeping,
Messaging,
Infrastructure Services
accounting, monitoring, virtualization/clouds
support, information systems and providers
Support via the GGUS application
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Main Technical Objectives
• Simplify security, hiding the use of certificates
and using common methods across all
supported middleware
• Develop a set of common clients and libraries
and programming interfaces
• Introduce new services and technologies, like
messaging, service management interfaces and
dynamic resource and service provision (clouds)
• Implement standards and work actively on
interoperability
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EMI Middleware Evolution
Before EMI
3 years
After EMI
Applications
Integrators, System
Administrators
Specialized services,
professional support
and customization
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EMI Reference Services
Standards,
New technologies (clouds)
Users and Infrastructures
Requirements
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Collaborations
EGI, PRACE,
WLCG,OSG
SLAs &
Support
Requirements
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ESFRI,
VRCs
Releases
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Collaborations
Collaborations
Standards
Industry
DCI collaborations
StratusLab
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SIENA
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Thank you
EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI-261611
http://www.eu-emi.eu
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