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@INPROCEEDINGS{Aiftimiei:128974,
      author       = {Aiftimiei, Cristina and Aimar, Alberto and Ceccanti, Andrea
                      and Cecchi, Marco and Di Meglio, Alberto and Estrella,
                      Florida and Fuhrmann, Patrick and Giorgio, Emidio and Konya,
                      Balazs and Field, Laurence and Nilsen, Jon Kerr and Riedel,
                      Morris and White, John},
      title        = {{T}owards next generations of software for distributed
                      infrastructures: {T}he {E}uropean {M}iddleware {I}nitiative},
      publisher    = {IEEE},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2013-00498},
      pages        = {10 p.},
      year         = {2012},
      comment      = {Proceedings of E-Science (e-Science), 2012 IEEE 8th
                      International Conference on},
      booktitle     = {Proceedings of E-Science (e-Science),
                       2012 IEEE 8th International Conference
                       on},
      abstract     = {The last two decades have seen an exceptional increase of
                      the available networking, computing and storage resources.
                      Scientific research communities have exploited these
                      enhanced capabilities developing large scale collaborations,
                      supported by distributed infrastructures. In order to enable
                      usage of such infrastructures, several middleware solutions
                      have been created. However such solutions, having been
                      developed separately, have been resulting often in
                      incompatible middleware and infrastructures. The European
                      Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a collaboration, started in
                      2010, among the major European middleware providers (ARC,
                      dCache, gLite, UNICORE), aiming to consolidate and evolve
                      the existing middleware stacks, facilitating their
                      interoperability and their deployment on large distributed
                      infrastructures, establishing at the same time a sustainable
                      model for the future maintenance and evolution of the
                      middleware components. This paper presents the strategy
                      followed for the achievements of these goals : after an
                      analysis of the situation before EMI, it is given an
                      overview of the development strategy, followed by the most
                      notable technical results, grouped according to the four
                      development areas (Compute, Data, Infrastructure, Security).
                      The rigorous process ensuring the quality of provided
                      software is then illustrated, followed by a description the
                      release process, and of the relations with the user
                      communities. The last section provides an outlook to the
                      future, focusing on the undergoing actions looking toward
                      the sustainability of activities.},
      month         = {Oct},
      date          = {8-10-2012},
      organization  = {2012 IEEE 8th International Conference
                       on E-Science (e-Science), Chicago, IL
                       (USA), 8-10-2012 - 12-10-2012},
      cin          = {JSC},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
      pnm          = {412 - Grid Technologies and Infrastructures (POF2-412)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-412},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
      doi          = {10.1109/eScience.2012.6404415},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/128974},
}