Summer Student Project Report by Volodymyr Yurchenko

In 2020, the ALICE experiment at CERN will restart collecting data with an upgraded detector. The ALICE upgrade includes the upgrade of the DAQ, the HLT and the offline systems into a new common Online-Offline computing system (O2). The prototype of this system was created to demonstrate the benefits of using new instruments to improve efficiency of computing system. This document is the report on project done by Volodymyr Yurchenko during Summer Student Program 2014. It describes the scope of fulfilled work concerning testing of the prototype of new computing system to be used during Run 3 in ALICE experiment and exploration of possibilities of using FairRoot and ZeroMQ to build data transport layer in the prototype.