European Middleware Initiative

Revised Release date for EMI 2 Matterhorn

2012-05-08T12:43:08Z

The release date for EMI 2 Matterhorn has been changed from April 30, 2012 to May 18, 2012.

EMI 2 (Matterhorn) is the second EMI major release and brings new services and functionalities, new platforms support and many bug fixes.

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 15 is available.

2012-04-30T06:50:01Z

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 15 is available.

The highlights of this Update are:
- new version of BLAH, v. 1.16.5 - affected services: CREAM
- new version of DPM v. 1.8.3 - affected services: DPM, UI, WN
- new version of GFAL/lcg_util v. 1.12.0 - affected services: UI, WN
- new version of glite-proxyrenewal v. 1.3.25 - affected services:
FTS/FTA, PX, WMS
- new version of LFC v. 1.8.3 - affected services: LFC, UI, WN
- new version of WMS, v. 3.3.5 - affected services: WMS

All details of the update can be found at:
http://www.eu-emi.eu/emi-1-kebnekaise-updates/-/asset_publisher/Ir6q/content/update-15-23-04-2012

Updated artefacts can be found in the "Updates" section of the EMI
Software Repository:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft

IMPORTANT NOTE:
With the release in EPEL of the globus-gridftp-server-6.5-4.el5 (more
details at http://bit.ly/globus_6_5_4) the issues of the DPM-DSI and
StoRM-GridFTP-Server are solved.
The workaround applied is no more needed so the previous versions of
Globus, 5.0.3/5.0.4, are no longer present in the EMI 1 third-party
repository.
After updating the DPM-DSI and StoRM-GridFTP-Server it is recommended to
restart the services. Also the gridftp server instances need to be
restarted using the following commands:

* EMI Disk Pool Manager (DPM)
# /etc/init.d/dpm-gsiftp restart

* StoRM-GridFTP-Server
# service storm-globus-gridftp restart

Please remember that: WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT TO USE AUTOMATIC UPDATE
PROCEDURE OF ANY KIND on the EMI middleware repositories and EPEL (you
can keep it turned on for the OS). You should read the update
information provided by each service and do the upgrade manually when an
update has been released.

For automatic notifications of future updates you can register to the
"EMI 1 Updates" RSS feed at:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/EMINews.rss.xml

EMI at CHEP 2012

2012-04-20T09:51:11Z

EMI will be at CHEP 2012 in NYC. The conference will be organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory and co-sponsored by New York University from May 21 to 25, 2012.

More details here.

An MoU signed by EMI with IGE at EMI Second Technical Conference

2012-04-04T06:55:26Z

EMI and IGE both supply distributed computing technologies in Europe in order to provide European researchers with a pan-European computing infrastructure built from federated distributed resources and access to desktop grids. These projects support, maintain and develop middleware, and explore the application of cloud computing to grid infrastructures and scientific research. In particular, Globus, a grid middleware example, is a set of tools for constructing a grid, covering security measures, resource location and management, communications and so on. Many major grid projects use Globus, which is being developed by the Globus Alliance, a group involving Ian Foster's team at Argonne National Laboratory and Carl Kesselman's team at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In Europe, IGE is driving forward Globus developments according to European user requirements in close collaboration with the European Grid Initiative (EGI), Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI) projects, and Standard Development Organizations (SDOs).

The specific goals of the new EMI/IGE Collaboration defined by the MoU are to:

1) ensure the provision of dedicated support from Globus developers and maintainers,
2) ensure EMI internal plans are known to IGE for IGE's planning purposes,
3) deliver interoperable EMI and IGE solutions,
4) provide Globus and EMI platform requirements respectively through IGE and EMI releases.

Thanks to this MoU, user will be able to use a common infrastructure, benefitting from the computing edge technologies provided by both these Initiatives. So, just as the very old but true saying: "together we stand, divided we fall"…

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 14 is available.

2012-03-16T08:46:53Z

The highlights of this Update are:
- new version of BDII core, v.1.3.0
- new version of Gridsite, v.1.7.19
- new version of VOMS, v. 2.0.7

All details of the update can be found at:
http://www.eu-emi.eu/emi-1-kebnekaise-updates/-/asset_publisher/Ir6q/content/update-14-16-03-2012

Updated artefacts are present in the "Updates" section of the EMI Software Repository:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft

For automatic notifications of future updates you can register to the "EMI 1 Updates" RSS feed at:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/EMINews.rss.xml

To report any issues with this update please use GGUS (www.ggus.org).
To help us improve our products and services please participate to discussions on our User Forums (http://www.eu-emi.eu/forums-mls).

UNICORE Summit 2012

2012-03-15T09:56:34Z

UNICORE Summit 2012 - Call for Contribution

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Dresden, Germany, May 30 – 31, 2012
http://www.unicore.eu/summit/2012/
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SCOPE
The UNICORE Summit is a unique opportunity for UNICORE users,
developers, administrators, researchers, service providers and managers
to meet. Participate to share your experience, present your own
developments, present planned developments, learn about the latest
UNICORE features and get new ideas for interesting and prosperous
collaborations.

The UNICORE Summit 2012 will take place at Dresden University of
Technology,
Dresden, Germany.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The main topics of the UNICORE Summit 2012 are:
- Experiences and own developments
- Future developments

Areas of interest include all UNICORE-related work:
* recent developments in all technological domains
* experiences from end-users and administrators
* application integration
* portal integration
* interoperability use cases
* security
* integration with cloud and virtualization techniques
* performance evaluation
* data management
* new ideas and concepts
* etc.

SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of one page maximum.
Contributions can be of type presentation, demonstration or poster (the
type of contribution must be indicated).
Accepted contributions for the proceedings will be either full papers
(for presentations, up to 10 pages) or short papers (for demonstrations
and posters, up to 5 pages).
Abstracts should be submitted online in PDF format by submitting it to:
http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/zih/unicore-summit-2012/author/submit.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted contributions will be published in the IAS book series of
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH publishers as an edited book with ISBN
number. The book will be published after the UNICORE Summit and each
participant will receive a copy.

IMPORTANT DATES
Contributions due: April 16, 2012
Acceptance notification: April 30, 2012
UNICORE Summit: May 30 - 31, 2012
Papers for Proceedings due: June 25, 2012

In case you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact
unicore-summit@unicore.eu

6th International dCache Workshop

2012-02-23T10:06:27Z

The 6th International dCache workshop is an event in a series of workshops, meant to build and maintain an active dCache community and to strengthen the relationship between dCache system administrators and dCache developers.

Official workshop Web page.

EMI at ISGC'12

2012-03-09T09:25:40Z

EMI will be present at International Symposium of Grid and Cloud Computing being held in Taipei from February 26th to March 2nd. The conference is hosted by the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC). Continuing a consolidated tradition (10th anniversary occurs this year), ISGC12 will provide an unique opportunity for researchers and collaboration partners to share their knowledges around and about distributed computing platforms.
EMI contributes to the scientific program, and will also run a booth, where conference participants can gather detailed information about the project and receive a special gift. Find out how by visiting this page.

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 13 is available.

2012-02-17T13:54:55Z

The highlights of this Update are:

new version of BDII core, v.1.2.0
new version of BDII site, v.1.1.0
new version of FTS, v. 2.2.8
new version of StoRM, v. 1.8.2

All details of the update can be found at:
http://www.eu-emi.eu/emi-1-kebnekaise-updates/-/asset_publisher/Ir6q/content/update-13-17-02-2012

Updated artefacts are present in the "Updates" section of the EMI Software Repository:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft

For automatic notifications of future updates you can register to the "EMI 1 Updates" RSS feed at:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/EMINews.rss.xml

To report any issues with this update please use GGUS (www.ggus.org).
To help us improve our products and services please participate to discussions on our User Forums (http://www.eu-emi.eu/forums-mls).

Cloudscape IV - Advances in Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards

2012-02-14T11:13:05Z

23-24 February, 2012,

European Commission premises - Avenue de Beaulieu BU, 25, Brussels, Belgium

Cloudscape IV focuses strongly on interoperability and portability issues with the involvement of key Standard Development Organizations as part of a call for action to strengthen international cooperation to address global challenges. Cloudscape IV also shines the spotlight on the reusable assets of European Distributed Computing Infrastructures and the need to foster synergies beyond the typical research infrastructure landscape. The event also sees the launch of the SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond.

The two-day agenda also features a keynote from Mario Campolargo, Director DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission, insights from all major stakeholders, including eResearch, industry and eGovernment communities and interactive roundtable debates on the burning issues with valuable networking opportunities, making Cloudscape IV a key event on the cloud computing calendar.

EMI has a new e-infrastructure client: iMarine

2012-03-27T14:48:58Z

In January 2012, EMI has formalized in an MoU its technical and strategic partnership with iMarine to support the creation of an open data e-infrastructure for fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources.

Press releases: EMI, CORDIS; iSGTW.

iMarine Web site.

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 12

2012-01-19T11:24:49Z

EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Update 12 is available.

The highlights of this Update are:
- new version of BLAH v. 1.16.4
- new version of dCache v. 1.19.12-13
- new version of UNICORE TSI6 v. 4.2.0
- new version of UNICORE/X6 v. 4.2.0

All details of the update can be found at:
http://www.eu-emi.eu/emi-1-kebnekaise-updates/-/asset_publisher/Ir6q/content/update-12-19-01-2012

Updated artefacts are present in the "Updates" section of the EMI Software Repository:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft

For automatic notifications of future updates you can register to the "EMI 1 Updates" RSS feed at:
http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/EMINews.rss.xml

To report any issues with this update please use GGUS (www.ggus.org).
To help us improve our products and services please participate to discussions on our User Forums (http://www.eu-emi.eu/forums-mls).

EMI collaboration with FutureGrid

2011-12-10T09:13:07Z

EMI is happy to announce the beginning of collaboration with FutureGrid. It will be an important opportunity for EMI to be known within US exploring potentially synergetic products provided by FutureGrid to limit duplicate developments and to engage in fruitful collaborations in order to support the requirements of global research communities. More information about the project can be found here.

2nd EMI Technical Conference (March 26-30 2012)

2011-12-05T09:19:27Z

The 2nd EMI Technical Conference will take place at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching near Munich, Germany between 26-30 March 2012.

The event will be hosted by EGI.eu in partnership with the Munich Network Management, a consortium of four German research institutions.

The Technical Conference will be held in conjunction with the EGI Community Forum 2012.

EGI Web page.

EMI 2nd Technical Conference Call for Participation Open (Closes on Dec. 7)

2011-12-10T09:15:58Z

The Call for Participation for the 2nd EMI Technical Conference/EGI Community Forum 2012 is now closed.

Please refer to the following page for details.

EMI at SC'11

2011-11-04T14:59:11Z

European Middleware Initiative (EMI) will exhibit at SuperComputing.

SC, held annually every November, is the world's largest international conference and exhibition for high-performance computing, and includes exhibitions by industry and research institutions

The booth n. 763 will showcase posters and banners presenting the aims of the project and its main achievements, above all the first release EMI 1 Kebnekaise, that will be shown to the largest audience of visitors ever. EMI 1 features the results of intense work, that has involved researchers, engineers and technical experts from many countries of Europe and Asia.

EMI project is a joint effort of the major European Middleware provider and other specialized software providers, which aim to overcome the difficulties preventing so far massive adoption of distributed computing infrastructures, solving at the same time interoperability issues among the different middleware flavours.

In the booth will be presented a video showing the core aim of the project and the effectiveness that its products can have on people’s work.

Come to visit us at SC11 (Seattle 14-17 November) booth n. 763

EMI-European Middleware Initiative

www.eu-emi.eu

The 3rd EMI All-Hands Meeting, Padova (October 17-19, 2011)

2012-04-20T09:19:17Z

The 3rd EMI AHM, hosted by INFN Padova, will be held in Padova on 17-19 October 2011.

Draft agenda, registration, accommodation, logistics and more at:
https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=147484

Registration opening day: 18 July 2011

Registration deadline: 07 October 2011

Contact info: emi-po(AT)cern.ch

Questions/comments: contact emi-ahm-padova@cern.ch

EGI Technical Forum, Lyon (September 19-23, 2011)

2011-09-27T09:00:23Z

EMI is present at the EGI Technical Forum 2011 to be held in Lyon, from September 19 to 23, 2011. The event is hosted by EGI.eu, the Computing Centre of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (CC-IN2P3) and France Grilles, the French National Grid Initiative.

The Technical Forum is providing an overview of the EGI community and review the community's plans and progress towards the adoption of a federated virtualised infrastructure for European researchers. EMI runs a user tutorial where participants can experience EMI middleware and ask questions to experts.

EMI has 2 other sessions: EMI Directions and EMI Security Directions.

EMI is contributing to the following face to face sessions:

Data Management Workshop
Virtualization and Cloud Computing: EGI Virtualization Roadmap
EGI Sustainability and Business Models
CHAIN

EMI is also leading a number of sessions in the co-located OGF, contributing to the co-located SIENA workshop and attending the invitation-only EC eConcertation Meeting.

Check out our programme here, or visit the EMI booth to know more details about our activities in Lyon.

Conference web site.

EMI at OGF32 (July 15-18, 2011)

2011-07-27T13:38:21Z

OGF is an open standard community that drives the rapid evolution and adoption of open standards in distributed computing. OGF carries out its work mainly through established 'working and community groups' that build the community, explore trends, share best practices and consolidate them into standards. EMI is fully committed in this process, not only through adopting, maintaining and developing products compliant with OGF standards, but by actively contributing to or chairing numerous groups that gather at events like OGF32. OGF32 will be held from July 15th to 18th at Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. EMI's contribution to OGF32 will range from the more technical aspects, participating to the standardization groups like for information schema (GLUE), usage records (UR), grid storage (GSM) and job description language (JSDL), to the chairing of high profile groups like GIN (Grid Interoperation Now) and PGI (Production Grid Infrastructure). Significantly, the OGF32 Standardization session will be chaired by an EMI project member. More info can be obtained at the conference web site. Finally, there will be also one dedicated EMI session to inform the community about the EMI standardization progress and plans.

Joint European DCI Summer School 2011 (July 11-16, 2011), Budapest

2011-07-27T13:37:42Z

The Distributed Computing Infrastructure projects in Europe aim to provide
European researchers with a pan-European computing infrastructure built
from federated distributed resources and also access to desktop grids. The
projects support, maintain and develop middleware, and explore the
application of cloud computing to grid infrastructures and scientific
research.

The summer school will give insights into the distributed computing
technologies provided by the European Middleware Initiative, the
Initiative for Globus in Europe, the European Desktop Grid Initiative and
StratusLab. Based on the experience of DEGISCO and the European Grid
Infrastructure, the school will also address organization, application
porting, and user support in production infrastructures based on these
technologies.

The DCI projects are part-funded under the e-Infrastructures topic of the
EU FP7 "Capacities" theme.

11-16 July 2011, Budapest, Hungary

Official Web site.