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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Title: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">European Middleware Initiative (EMI)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Funding: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Seventh Framework Programme</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Start date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">May 20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">10</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">End date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">April 20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">1</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">3 </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Web site: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"><a href="http://www.eu-emi.eu/">http://www.eu-emi.eu/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Description:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The EMI brings together the major European middleware providers to deliver a consolidated set of services to provide the European and global research communities with unprecedented computing power. EMI components are deployed in the European Distributed Computing Infrastructures, in particular EGI and PRACE. The project aims to extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures, strengthen the reliability of services, and solidify a model of comprehensive middleware services for all user communities. EMI aims to lower the technological barriers still preventing resource owners from federating resources, and research communities from using grids as a commodity tool in their activities. It focuses on improving usability and accessibility for scientific users and interoperability and manageability for service providers.</span></p>
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