[5] EMI supported broad scientific experiments and initiatives, such as the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (for the Large Hadron Collider).

The EMI middleware was a cooperation among three general purpose grid platforms, the Advanced Resource Connector, gLite and UNICORE and the dCache storage software.

[citation needed] Input for the development activities is taken from users, infrastructures projects, standardization initiatives or changing technological innovations.

The software products will be adapted as necessary to comply with standard open-source guidelines to facilitate the integration in mainstream operating system distributions.

[citation needed] The EMI products (components of the release) can be grouped in four categories (areas): computing, data, security and infrastructure.