Abstract: CERN is the largest research centre for particle physics research in the world. Experiments generate large amounts of data which must be stored, processed and analysed. The storage solutions should provide large data capacity, scalability and reliability. The openlab CERN-Huawei partnership aims at testing and evaluating the performance of the Huawei Universal Distributed Storage system. Benchmarking and monitoring tools are developed to investigate the storage system behaviour.

Project Specification: Rackspace and CERN are implementing federated identity of OpenStack clouds within the OpenStack cloud project. The project is to enhance the client tools in OpenStack to support Thefederated identity functionalities, work with the open source community to incorporate these changes into the product and adapt the documentation and testing.

Project Specification: OpenShift Origin is an open source software developed mainly by Red Hat to provide a Multilanguage PaaS. It is meant to allow developers to build and deploy their applications in a uniform way, reducing the configuration and management effort required on the administration side. The aim of the project is to investigate how to deploy OpenShift Origin at CERN, and to which extent it could be integrated with CERN "Middleware on Demand" service.