Project EMI helps the Higgs Boson discovery

European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a joint effort of the major European distributed computing middleware providers (ARC, dCache, gLite, and UNICORE). This initiative introduces in Europe and beyond new functionality to satisfy user requirements specifically in four sectors: security, compute, data and information systems. These sectors are working together to supply products that can be installed from a distribution source by site administrators or researchers. This supports and evolves the research infrastructures and allows academic and industrial researchers to access resources, data and applications across the world, targeting the needs of users with a huge computational and storage demand. EMI improves the existing middleware services and harmonizes them, realizing a common framework  with the result of rendering the middleware simpler and easier to use, reducing at the same time the interoperability problems faced by the distributed computing infrastructure providers. 

CINECA, as member of the UNICORE Forum, supported the development of UNICORE components within EMI and contributed to the EMI release management. Moreover it led the quality control task to enforce the quality process aimed to improve the EMI releases.

For more info view EMI page on SCAI website.

EMI contributed to the Higgs Boson discovery: