Yesterday, at the OpenStack summit taking place in Paris, France, the first OpenStack Superuser award was handed over to Tim Bell and his team, representing CERN. The OpenStack Foundation launched the Superuser Awards to recognise, support and celebrate teams of end-users and operators that use OpenStack to meaningfully improve their businesses while contributing back to the community.

Allison Price, in the announcement on the OpenStack webpage, highlighted the fact "CERN has one of the largest OpenStack deployments, featuring 70,000 cores and nearly 1,000 users in a single cloud." And that "During the past year in production, CERN has seen steady growth in the number of instances and users, with over 100 new users per month, and expects to add 20,000 more cores before the end of the year. A big congrats to the team!."

To know more about how OpenStack is being used at CERN and our partnership with Rackpsace within CERN openlab (at 14:50 of the video), please watch Tim Bell's talk at the OpenStack Paris Summit, as well as the following hang out video about our collaboration with Rackspace, our CERN openlab contributor. A video about CERN use case was also published by OpenStack at this occasion.

Photo: credit OpenStack (http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/and-the-superuser-award-goes-to)