Inside CERN’s Open Data portal - OpenStack Superuser

"Although the European Organization for Nuclear Research occupies a relatively modest patch of land on the French-Swiss border, the scope of CERN’s research is big — from the Higgs boson (aka “God particle”), anti-matter and dark matter, to extra dimensions – and the amount of data generated is truly vast. Since 2014, the CERN Open Data portal, which runs on OpenStack, has been making it available for high schoolers, data scientists and armchair physics buffs. The most recent information made public in late 2017 includes a petabyte of data, including sets related to the discovery of the Higgs boson glimpsed through the Large Hadron Collider. Superuser talks to Tibor Simko, technology lead behind the CERN Open Data portal, about the backend as well as the future of the project...."