ICT Research and Development Center
PSNC provides access to a world-class e-Infrastructure for the scientific community, a specific research and development environment – DIGITAL SCIENCE – for “proof of concept” projects, prototyping or large-scale pilot projects. Another branch of our activity is in DIGITAL INDUSTRY, which is focused on the creation of innovations based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), i.e. the execution of specific implementations for various fields of science and industry. Equally important is our work in the context of SOCIAL INNOVATION to spread knowledge and awareness of contemporary technological opportunities among various social groups, as well as actively fighting against digital exclusion.
For over 30 years, we have been open to extensive cooperation both with research institutions to explore new areas of scientific challenges in joint projects and with industry partners – new entrants or large companies for which our competence and experience can become a strong asset to develop competitive innovation. Come and join us!
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On December 30, 2024, the Director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS), Luiza Handschuh, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof., appointed Robert Pekal, MSc, Eng., as the Plenipotentiary of the Director of IBCH PAS for PSNC.
The National Information Processing Institute – National Research Institute, as an intermediary institution in the FENG Priority II, has completed the assessment of applications for funding in two calls “The Path for Projects from the Polish Roadmap of Research Infrastructure” and “The Path for Projects Concerning Undertakings of Network-Based Institutions Consisting of Research Organizations”. The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the leader of four and a partner in two projects funded in these calls.
"PSNC Digital Future Talks" podcast has received an award from the Digital Poland Association at the 4th edition of the "Podcast of the Year" gala. “Podcast of the Year” is the first nationwide competition aimed at promoting the quality, originality, and cultural value of various audio formats in digital media.
OPERAS – a research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences is a key initiative supporting the development of open scientific communication within the European Research Area. As part of the OPERAS consortium, sixty-five institutions from 24 countries are developing products and services that foster open scientific communication in the humanities and social sciences. This year, the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center has joined the Consortium.
GenAI project is supposed to provide generation Z with knowledge allowing them to use artificial intelligence in a proper way. In practice, it should have positive effects on academic, professional and personal aspects of life, as a result of developing digital skills, critical thinking, and problem solving, as well as increasing awareness concerning both the potential and limitations of AI.
A brand new TOP500 list revealing the fastest supercomputers in the world was released during this year’s Supercomputing in Atlanta (17–22.11.2024). The list includes computing systems from PRACE-LAB and PRACE-LAB2 projects, which are key Polish high efficiency computing infrastructures. These two TOP500 entries confirm Poland’s strong position on the global arena of computing development.
During the Supercomputing 2024 conference in Atlanta (USA), the new annual IO500 list has been announced – ranking the current world’s fastest data storage systems. The PSNC data storage system for the Proxima HPC cluster is ranked at #10 on the 10 Node Production List.
During the SC Conference had a demonstration uses two quantum-classical testbeds in PSNC, Poznan, Poland and the SC24 venue in Atlanta, USA.
Representatives of 14 organizations involved in the Heriforge project visited the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center on 14 and 15 January 2025. The goal of the project is to provide a research environment for culture, art and national heritage using the technology of extended reality (XR).
On 9 December 2024 PSNC headquarters in Poznań hosted the "STEAM & AI – Modern Trends in Education" conference organized as a part of the 2024 edition of the "Active Board" program. The event was organized in cooperation with the Poznań Education Authority. The attendees were mostly principals and teachers from schools across the Wielkopolska region of Poland.
That was the most important question of this year’s Crisis Management Workshop (CLAW) organized annually for the GÉANT community, which after several editions was moved from Poznań to Barcelona. For two days (3 and 4 December 2024) the participants took part in practical exercises to resolve a crisis in a fictional European country called Guilder. The multimedia materials used during the workshops were prepared by the usual PSNC team.
The EUDAT conference 2024 organised in Karlsruhe (Germany) on 3-5 December 2024 is an international forum on and about DATA. Topics such as EOSC, the Data Spaces, the connection with HPC and handling sensitive data were tackled in dedicated sessions that provide a view of developments on a European level.
POZITIVE.TECH 2024 is an event that brings together IT specialists, digital transformation experts and technology enthusiasts. They meet to exchange knowledge, inspirations and shape the future. This year's edition took place at CK Zamek in the very heart of Poznań, between 2 and 6 December 2024. One of the participants of this event was a PSNC quantum expert Dr Krzysztof Kurowski.
On 5 December 2024, "Organic Workers from Turew. A Virtual Exhibition of Memorabilia Related to the Cradle of Organic Work (Stage 1) – The Chamber of Memory" was officially opened in the Palace of Turew near the city of Kościan in Wielkopolska (42 kilometers south of Poznań). This event marked the completion of the project entitled "Virtual Heritage of the Organic Work Trail: Digitization and Exhibition of Artifacts and the Turew Archive (Stage 1)" implemented by the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS together with PSNC, and co-financed by the Wielkopolska Region Authorities as a part of the program "Organic Work – The Heritage of Wielkopolska".
On 23 and 24 November 2024 participants of a 24-hour-long „Planet-On Quantum & AI Hackathon for Greener Future” faced the challenges of stopping the climate changes. The event was organised by PSNC Future Labs, Lawyers Association of Wielkopolska and AQT. The Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management was the patron of the competition.
The lasting effect of information was the theme of the third edition of Digitization in Museums Conference and the accompanying discussion forum. The event took place in the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw on 21 and 22 November 2024. Błażej Betański from the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department of PSNC represented the our Center, elaborating on ECHOES – a platform enabling cooperation in the field of cultural heritage.
At the end of 2024, GÉANT released a report identifying the key opportunities and challenges facing the NREN community (National Research and Education Network) in the coming decade. One of the authors of this document is Raimundas Tuminauskas – Head of the Network Infrastructure and Services Department at PSNC.
This year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry highlight the groundbreaking role of artificial intelligence in those fields. To get insights into this significant development, we reached out to Dr Mikołaj Buchwald – an expert from the PSNC Internet Services Department, whose research interests include cognitive neuroscience, machine learning methodology, as well as using AI plus advanced data analysis to explain human physiology and psychology.
Thanks to the Dariah.lab infrastructure, the first pilot projects for the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage resources have been implemented in 2023. Dariah.lab is a research infrastructure for the humanities and arts, built as part of the DARIAH-PL project. It serves to acquire, store and integrate cultural data from the humanities and social sciences, and to process, visualise and share digital resources.
Here is a short sellection of recent articles on PSNC that have appeared in some international media.
Thanks to the Dariah.lab infrastructure, the first pilot projects for the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage resources have been implemented in 2023. Dariah.lab is a research infrastructure for the humanities and arts, built as part of the DARIAH-PL project. It serves to acquire, store and integrate cultural data from the humanities and social sciences, and to process, visualise and share digital resources.
The Polish Quantum Computing Node established at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center - IBM Quantum Innovation Center - focused its activities in 2023 on expanding partnerships with leading centers and teams dealing with the development of quantum algorithms and their potential applications.
The construction of the hangar with laboratory and research facilities and its equipment is carried out as part of the "AEROSFERA" project. “The airport of things”. The main objective of the project is to provide Kąkolewo Airport with scientific and research infrastructure for conducting research and development work in the fields of air transport, utility operations, logistics, monitoring, surveillance and neutralisation of incidents and disasters.
We invite you to read an interview with Prof. Dr. Michał Nowicki, Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, in which he discusses issues related to the use of modern ICT technologies in a variety of health and medical contexts.
On December 30, 2024, the Director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS), Luiza Handschuh, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof., appointed Robert Pekal, MSc, Eng., as the Plenipotentiary of the Director of IBCH PAS for PSNC.
Representatives of 14 organizations involved in the Heriforge project visited the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center on 14 and 15 January 2025. The goal of the project is to provide a research environment for culture, art and national heritage using the technology of extended reality (XR).
At the end of 2024, GÉANT released a report identifying the key opportunities and challenges facing the NREN community (National Research and Education Network) in the coming decade. One of the authors of this document is Raimundas Tuminauskas – Head of the Network Infrastructure and Services Department at PSNC.
The National Information Processing Institute – National Research Institute, as an intermediary institution in the FENG Priority II, has completed the assessment of applications for funding in two calls “The Path for Projects from the Polish Roadmap of Research Infrastructure” and “The Path for Projects Concerning Undertakings of Network-Based Institutions Consisting of Research Organizations”. The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the leader of four and a partner in two projects funded in these calls.
On 9 December 2024 PSNC headquarters in Poznań hosted the "STEAM & AI – Modern Trends in Education" conference organized as a part of the 2024 edition of the "Active Board" program. The event was organized in cooperation with the Poznań Education Authority. The attendees were mostly principals and teachers from schools across the Wielkopolska region of Poland.
This year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry highlight the groundbreaking role of artificial intelligence in those fields. To get insights into this significant development, we reached out to Dr Mikołaj Buchwald – an expert from the PSNC Internet Services Department, whose research interests include cognitive neuroscience, machine learning methodology, as well as using AI plus advanced data analysis to explain human physiology and psychology.
"PSNC Digital Future Talks" podcast has received an award from the Digital Poland Association at the 4th edition of the "Podcast of the Year" gala. “Podcast of the Year” is the first nationwide competition aimed at promoting the quality, originality, and cultural value of various audio formats in digital media.
That was the most important question of this year’s Crisis Management Workshop (CLAW) organized annually for the GÉANT community, which after several editions was moved from Poznań to Barcelona. For two days (3 and 4 December 2024) the participants took part in practical exercises to resolve a crisis in a fictional European country called Guilder. The multimedia materials used during the workshops were prepared by the usual PSNC team.
Thanks to the Dariah.lab infrastructure, the first pilot projects for the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage resources have been implemented in 2023. Dariah.lab is a research infrastructure for the humanities and arts, built as part of the DARIAH-PL project. It serves to acquire, store and integrate cultural data from the humanities and social sciences, and to process, visualise and share digital resources.
OPERAS – a research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences is a key initiative supporting the development of open scientific communication within the European Research Area. As part of the OPERAS consortium, sixty-five institutions from 24 countries are developing products and services that foster open scientific communication in the humanities and social sciences. This year, the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center has joined the Consortium.
The EUDAT conference 2024 organised in Karlsruhe (Germany) on 3-5 December 2024 is an international forum on and about DATA. Topics such as EOSC, the Data Spaces, the connection with HPC and handling sensitive data were tackled in dedicated sessions that provide a view of developments on a European level.
Here is a short sellection of recent articles on PSNC that have appeared in some international media.
GenAI project is supposed to provide generation Z with knowledge allowing them to use artificial intelligence in a proper way. In practice, it should have positive effects on academic, professional and personal aspects of life, as a result of developing digital skills, critical thinking, and problem solving, as well as increasing awareness concerning both the potential and limitations of AI.
POZITIVE.TECH 2024 is an event that brings together IT specialists, digital transformation experts and technology enthusiasts. They meet to exchange knowledge, inspirations and shape the future. This year's edition took place at CK Zamek in the very heart of Poznań, between 2 and 6 December 2024. One of the participants of this event was a PSNC quantum expert Dr Krzysztof Kurowski.
Thanks to the Dariah.lab infrastructure, the first pilot projects for the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage resources have been implemented in 2023. Dariah.lab is a research infrastructure for the humanities and arts, built as part of the DARIAH-PL project. It serves to acquire, store and integrate cultural data from the humanities and social sciences, and to process, visualise and share digital resources.
A brand new TOP500 list revealing the fastest supercomputers in the world was released during this year’s Supercomputing in Atlanta (17–22.11.2024). The list includes computing systems from PRACE-LAB and PRACE-LAB2 projects, which are key Polish high efficiency computing infrastructures. These two TOP500 entries confirm Poland’s strong position on the global arena of computing development.
On 5 December 2024, "Organic Workers from Turew. A Virtual Exhibition of Memorabilia Related to the Cradle of Organic Work (Stage 1) – The Chamber of Memory" was officially opened in the Palace of Turew near the city of Kościan in Wielkopolska (42 kilometers south of Poznań). This event marked the completion of the project entitled "Virtual Heritage of the Organic Work Trail: Digitization and Exhibition of Artifacts and the Turew Archive (Stage 1)" implemented by the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS together with PSNC, and co-financed by the Wielkopolska Region Authorities as a part of the program "Organic Work – The Heritage of Wielkopolska".
The Polish Quantum Computing Node established at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center - IBM Quantum Innovation Center - focused its activities in 2023 on expanding partnerships with leading centers and teams dealing with the development of quantum algorithms and their potential applications.
During the Supercomputing 2024 conference in Atlanta (USA), the new annual IO500 list has been announced – ranking the current world’s fastest data storage systems. The PSNC data storage system for the Proxima HPC cluster is ranked at #10 on the 10 Node Production List.
On 23 and 24 November 2024 participants of a 24-hour-long „Planet-On Quantum & AI Hackathon for Greener Future” faced the challenges of stopping the climate changes. The event was organised by PSNC Future Labs, Lawyers Association of Wielkopolska and AQT. The Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management was the patron of the competition.
The construction of the hangar with laboratory and research facilities and its equipment is carried out as part of the "AEROSFERA" project. “The airport of things”. The main objective of the project is to provide Kąkolewo Airport with scientific and research infrastructure for conducting research and development work in the fields of air transport, utility operations, logistics, monitoring, surveillance and neutralisation of incidents and disasters.
During the SC Conference had a demonstration uses two quantum-classical testbeds in PSNC, Poznan, Poland and the SC24 venue in Atlanta, USA.
The lasting effect of information was the theme of the third edition of Digitization in Museums Conference and the accompanying discussion forum. The event took place in the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw on 21 and 22 November 2024. Błażej Betański from the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department of PSNC represented the our Center, elaborating on ECHOES – a platform enabling cooperation in the field of cultural heritage.
We invite you to read an interview with Prof. Dr. Michał Nowicki, Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, in which he discusses issues related to the use of modern ICT technologies in a variety of health and medical contexts.
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Our mission is “Integration and development of IT infrastructure of science”. We provide the scientific community with access to world-class IT infrastructure. As the operator of the national PIONIER network and the city’s POZMAN network, we provide fast and secure access to the Internet and network services at international, national and local level. As a Supercomputing Center, we offer a wide range of computing services, access to virtual servers, cloud services, while allowing for fast and scalable data management.
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