On Tuesday 25th of October Intel CTO Paul Ottelini signed an agreement with CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer, extending the collaboration under CERN's openlab project for another three years.  The work will center around cloud computing and its security aspects, Exascale computing and improvements to datacenter efficiency.

Since joining openlab in 2003, Intel has been part of the "Platform Competence Center", working on fields such as thermal optimisation, multi-core scalability, application tuning and benchmarking. There has also been a strong emphasis on teaching.

In a press release announcing the signing, Intel Vice President Christian Morales said “The CERN team is conducting impressive research. We are very honored being continuously challenged by CERN to improve performance, energy efficiency and security solutions in our leading edge products and technologies"

Bob Jones, head of CERN openlab, added: “CERN openlab is a public-private partnership for multilateral, multi-year projects between CERN and the IT industry. We are very happy that Intel confirms its contribution to the CERN openlab for another three years."