The Fall 2012 EMI All Hands meeting will take place in Budapest from Monday 29 October to Wednesday 31 October 2012. It is hosted by NIIFI.

As we are getting closer to the conclusion of the EMI project, we are working on the third snapshot release (EMI 3 – Monte Bianco) and all the features we have pledged to provide with it. However, the end of the EMI project is not necessarily the end of a fruitful collaboration among the EMI partners. Infrastructures and researchers are going to need the middleware for a few more years at least and rely on what we provide.

Therefore this meeting has a special focus. What form the future EMI collaboration can take? What should it provide? How is it managed? What shape the middleware service should take and what additional features are needed beyond the end of the EMI projects? What form is the relationship with EGI, WLCG and other major projects or infrastructures going to take in the future?

There are many questions that deserve concrete answers and we would like this meeting to start providing some of them. There are both technical and strategic or managerial issues to be addressed.

The proposal is to dedicate Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning to a detailed discussion on long-term strategic issues, partnerships, collaborations, global tasks, etc. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning will be more focused on the more technical aspects of release management, technology roadmaps, future common work and so on. Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon are available to Technical Areas to set up technical sessions to discuss any immediate short-term issue related to EMI 3 and its components.

Event schedule, logistics and other and information can be found here.

Royal Palace and the Freedom bridge, (c) thebudapesthelp.com

As usual, EMI is one of the major contributor for the EGI Technical Forum. You can find below the EMI-specific events, where you can gather information and insights about our products. You can find EMI people in the exhibition venue at booth #14, where you get in touch with us for further information.

EMI Presentations

Click on the contribution title to get full details. You can also download the pdf version

After the successful last year participation, EMI has been part again of ISC 2012, delving into the exciting atmosphere of this event showcasing latest advances, trends and achievements in High Performance Computing. The EMI booth was opened by the press tour, eager to know about EMI capabilities and features, with particular regards to HPC. Afterwards, the EMI booth was attended by a huge number of visitors, that, attracted both from the EMI give aways and the outlined middleware capabilities, learned also about EMI future plans and the ScienceSoft initiative.

In fact, attendees had different backgrounds, from academics running HPC centres, and interested in employing some of the EMI solutions, to commercial software providers willing to know more about some of the cutting edge EMI features, for data managements in particulare. The booth had so many attendees that in the end no give away gadgets for visitors were left ! 
EMI will not be present in the next ISC edition, to be held in Dresden in June 2013, but maybe some other initiative will have taken EMI's place for that time !

The International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) is a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the high energy and nuclear physics community, computer science, and information technology. CHEP 2012 is organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory and co-sponsoredby New York University. EMI is proud academic sponsor, and will be at CHEP 2012 with an exhibition booth as well posters and talks. For more information please follow the link to the conference web site.

May 2012

The 4th EMI All Hands Meeting will be in Hamburg 8-10 May 2012, hosted
by the DESY team.

The 4th AHM will cover, among other things:

• EMI 2 Matterhorn status and lessons learned
• EMI 3 Monte Bianco roadmap
• WP status and year 3 plans
• Top priority developments in year 3
• Sustainability strategy and product provisioning after EMI

You will find the timetable, accommodation and travel
information at:
https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5338

The registration page, including registration fee information, will open on 10th April.

The AHM Hamburg organizers 

DESY Research Centre, Hamburg

celebrating the established appointment for researchers and e-scientist from all over the world, attracted by the stimulating
scientific program, traditionally including the most relevant progresses in and for digital infrastructures, providing at the same
time a privileged observatory for Asia-Pacific e-Science activities.

Alberto Di Meglio, EMI Project Director, and Patrick Fuhrmann,  providing speeches respectively on ScienceSoft and EMI Data Management advances in project year 2

Remarking its role in DCI's evolutions, EMI was present with its key persons, contributing to this year hottest topics, such as Middleware, Interoperability, Security, Sustainability, Infrastructure Clouds & Virtualisation, all presenting the current achievements, and outlining the future plans of the project. Furthermore, with the supportive help of Academia Sinica friends, EMI set up an exhibition booth, where ISGC attendees could get additional information and find out more on the EMI services and products. Moreover, by participating to an online game many attendees got the chance to take back home an EMI branded gift, and the promise to get a richer one in the next EMI appointment at the EMI Second Technical Conference in Munich !

Alberto Aimar, describing CERN virtualized infrastructure supporting EMI development. Alberto Di Meglio, Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu Director and Commitee Chair) and Simon Lin (Local host) at EMI booth.