January 2009. Left to right: Daniel Filipe Rodrigues, Jose Dana Perez, Andrzej Nowak, Xavier Gréhant, Mélissa Le Jeune, Maria Girone, Milosz Hulboj, François Flückiger, Svetozar Kapusta, Ryszard Jurga, Andreas Hirstius, Sverre Jarp, Séverine Pizzera, Havard Bjerke

The beginning of the year 2009 coincided with the transition from CERN openlab II to CERN openlab III and thus with the ending of some projects and some staff/fellow contracts.

Our warmest thanks to all of these people for having brought all their creativity, commitment and professionalism in the second phase of the CERN openlab and for having strongly participated to its success:

• Gyorgy Balazs (technical student openlab) focused on Performance Monitoring and thermal measurements. He will start shortly a fellowship in the Communications Systems Group of the IT Department.

• Håvard Bjerke (openlab fellow, collaboration with Intel) worked on several Virtualisation projects, Parallelisation of the ALICE High Level Trigger, and on multiple other benchmarks.

• Xavier Gréhant (openlab fellow, collaboration with HP Labs) started to work on Smart Domains and then oriented his research to Grid Resource Scheduling which became the foundation of his PhD Thesis work.

• Andreas Hirstius, openlab System Manager, was for many years responsible for the whole openlab computing cluster. He worked closely with Intel on Performance Monitoring, Server Optimisation, Network Performance and Disk Server Measurements. Andreas is now working in the Communications Systems Group of the IT Department.

• Jose Dana Perez (openlab fellow, collaboration with HP Labs) was in charge of the Tycoon project. José is now continuing in another role in the openlab.

• Anton Topurov (openlab fellow, collaboration with Oracle) focused on testing, evaluation and deployment of new Oracle technologies at CERN.

• Dawid Wójcik (openlab fellow, collaboration with Oracle) worked on High Availability solutions in databases.