The afternoon of the first day Alberto Di Meglio, the EMI
project leader, opened the afternoon sessions with a vision and strategy for
the future ‘beyond EMI’. EMI is coming to an end in April 2013. During its
three year duration, EMI has consolidated middleware and established a number
of innovative initiatives around collaborative software developments and
sustainability.
The future is indeed really promising. There were a
number of long-term collaborations presentations given, including: SciencePAD (Platforms, Applications, Data) for Software information management, discovery, support
for data-driven applications, open access and collaborations, and Middleware
Development and Innovation Alliance (MeDIA), for technical collaborations on
middleware for distributed computing and data services. Finally, Dcore
Solutions, a company that uses open source and community developed software in
other software solutions for eventual commercial exploitation.
SciencePAD is an initiative to capture, store and preserve information
about software used in scientific research. It manages information such as publications,
data analysis, authors and users, organizations, fundings, etc. in order to
create a market place for software developers and users to satisfy the reciprocal
needs.
MeDIA is an open, lightweight collaboration to facilitate the
development and evolution of middleware solutions. A launch event for this
initiative will take place in Rome on the 22nd of April.
A very fruitful discussion on this very complex issue ended the
afternoon sessions with a call to action for middleware developers to show
their interest in the MeDIA initiative. “The continuous evolution of the
middleware is essential for the development of the distributed computing
software and EMI has created the opportunity for the future collaborations to
secure its future” – concluded David Foster, CERN IT deputy department head.
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