With the support of the Immersify European project, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Spin Digital, and NHK Technologies, the expert in broadcasting technology, information systems and IT for NHK, the public broadcaster in Japan, will demonstrate an 8K live streaming from Poland to Japan. The live streaming will be presented to the public during the InterBEE show from November 13th to 15th, at the NHK Technologies booth Hall-3 – Booth 3113, at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo.
8K Immersive live experience
8K live streaming can enable new applications beyond traditional broadcasting including immersive live experiences where users in a remote location can enjoy a highly immersive view of events such as concerts, sports, and lectures, occurring at an event site.
Due to the fact that the transmission of uncompressed 8K signal would require a dedicated 100Gbit/s link, it was necessary to use efficient compression, which would allow to preserve an excellent image quality. By using HEVC compression technology and cloud-based content delivery and streaming it has been possible to create a cost-effective and reliable solution for 8K live streaming over the public internet.
From Poznan to Tokyo and back
For InterBEE 2019 Immersify partners – PSNC and Spin Digital – have been collaborating with NHK Technologies to present a special live streaming event from Poznan to Tokyo. These two places are separated by more than 8,700 km in a straight line – and much more if the length of the fibre optic connections is taken into account.
At the New Media Laboratory in Poznan, PSNC will host a unique artistic performance that will be captured and transmitted in 8K. At the NHK Technologies booth at InterBEE the content will be presented on a large 8K screen and will be open for all visitors. The audience will be able to watch the process of painting in an unusual technological scenery consisting of four 8K cameras and a robot. In addition, an 8K live video signal produced by NHK Technologies in Tokyo will be transmitted to Poznan and presented inside the scene of the artistic performance, creating a special sense of remote participation.
8K Live streaming technologies in action
This demonstration requires a complete end-to-end 8K production, delivery, and playback system, that is composed of:
8K IP Live production: at PSNC a unique 8K production setup based on the SONY equipment has been prepared. A key element of this system are 3 IP Live devices connected to each other by a local 40G Ethernet network. Two of them serve four 8K-enabled SONY F65 cameras and the third device acts as a master video switcher, which aggregated 4 video signals from the other two IPLive devices and generated the 8K stream transmitted to the encoding server. This enables easy switching of the output 8K signal taken from one or more cameras.
8K HEVC encoding and streaming: uncompressed video from the cameras is then encoded in HEVC using Advantech’s VEGA real-time encoder. The content is streamed and delivered using Spin Digital’s Spin Live Streaming software solution that is based on HLS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) MediaStore and CloudFront content delivery network.
8K media player and display wall: At the destination side in Japan, NHK Technologies has prepared a receiver that uses Spin Digital’s Spin Player as HEVC decoder and media player. The player is connected to the 8K projector using a 12G SDI interface.
NHK Technologies and the Immersify consortium will continue the collaboration on live streaming technologies, making further advances in areas such as low-latency 8k live streaming, and enabling 8K live streaming for wider audiences across the world.
Polish PRACE-LAB and PRACE-LAB2 HPC installations in the TOP500
2024-11-22
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.
PSNC’s Lustre System in the Top 10 of IO500 at SC24
2024-11-21
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.
Quantum Use Case Demonstration
2024-11-20
During the SC Conference had a demonstration uses two quantum-classical testbeds in PSNC, Poznan, Poland and the SC24 venue in Atlanta, USA.
Distributed Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing in a post-Quantum Cryptography World
2024-11-20
Quantum computing offers huge opportunities to the research and education (R&E) community as well as to commercial enterprise. Quantum computers have the power to tackle problems far beyond the current reach of classical computing, from simulating complex protein folding and predicting meteorological phenomena to modelling financial systems.
Meeting of the EuroHPC HEs Communication Network at SC24 in Atlanta
2024-11-19
These informal meetings between EuroHPC JU and the communications teams of the 6 hosting entities from Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain aim to facilitate information exchange, share best practices, and strengthen communication synergies. Last session, which we had the pleasure of participating in, focused on presenting the common EuroHPC communication strategy and preparing for the implementation of milestones and upcoming events.
There’s a lot going on during SC24
2024-11-19
On Monday, our colleague and expert in quantum technologies, Piotr Rydlichowski, took part in a workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (#INDIS) and highlighted the advancements in high-speed networking of this year SC24' Network Research Exhibition (#NRE - Network Research Exhibitions) powered by SCinet.
World’s First Multi-QPU, Multi-GPU, Multi-CPU Quantum Use Case Demonstration
2024-11-18
In a groundbreaking project, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland has worked with NVIDIA and ORCA Computing to demonstrate the world's first hybrid computing architecture at PSNC involving a multi-user HPC environment supporting multiple quantum processing units (QPUs), alongside multi-GPU and multi-CPU job execution. PSNC researchers have also trained a hybrid classical-quantum machine learning algorithm within this environment. This work is a first step toward demonstrating the importance of integrating QPUs into hybrid classical-quantum supercomputing environments.
PSNC team on SC24
2024-11-18
During the SC24 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, our experts will be happy to tell you about the projects that we have been implementing for over 30 years, both for research institutions, scientific communities and business. Visit our booth number 1149 to learn more about our research and development center. Maybe this will be the first step to start cooperation with us? See, who you can meet and talk to during SC24.
PSNC’s “Proste pismo” at the Congress of Effective Communication
2024-11-09
On 29 October 2024, Warsaw hosted the Congress of Effective Communication, organized by the Polish Language Foundation. During the expert panel Jarosław Liberek, PhD (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Tomasz Hoffman, PhD (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center) presented "Proste pismo" (Simple Writing) – a universal tool for simplifying complex written texts, which had been created as a result of cooperation between the Poznań City Hall, Adam Mickiewicz University and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.
PSNC and the PIONIER Consortium at the Supercomputing 24 Conference
2024-11-07
This year's SC24 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis will take place in Atlanta, USA from 17-22 November 2024. The Georgia World Congress Center, one of the largest convention centres in the world, will be the venue for meetings, talks and inspiring presentations at the conference and the accompanying exhibition.
ATRIUM Researchers Forum
2024-10-23
On Thursday 17 October, an international Researchers Forum was held as part of the ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) project. PSNC, as one of the partners included in the consortium, was the host of the first meeting of this kind, intended to exchange experiences of various researchers focused in the areas of digital humanities. The meeting was organised by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).
Large-scale environmental simulations as a step towards digital twins
2024-10-21
“Becoming a zettabytes economy. Advanced data centres impact & what’s Beyond?” was a one-day Poznań meeting aimed at connecting business, science and public sector in Wielkopolska. One of the speakers of this event was Dr. Engr. Marcin Lawenda from the HPC New Architectures Department at PSNC.
The first official launch of EOSC EU NODE
2024-10-14
October 10th 2024 was the first official launch of EOSC EU NODE, a reference node for EOSC provided by the European Commission. The presentation was held for European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) and EOSC Association.
PSNC projects at AGRO SHOW
2024-10-14
The 25th edition of the International Agricultural Exhibition AGRO SHOW took place in Bednary near Poznań between 20 and 22 September 2024. One of the events during the exhibition was the presentation of the AgriFoodTEF project, which was created by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, among others.
Autumn in Poznań with Géant and SIG-MSP
2024-10-14
On 24 October 2024 Poznań, also known as the Capital of Wielkopolska region, will host the autumn meeting of SIG-MSP (Special Interest Group – Management of Service Portfolios) which operates under the auspices of the major European computer network GÉANT. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center will be the co-host of this event, which is going to bring together members of National Research and Education Networks from all over Europe.
PSNC is the patron of the National Conference for Young Scientists
2024-10-02
“Contemporary trends and perspectives in computer science and management" is the motto of the 1st National Conference for Young Scientists, which will take place on 17 and 18 October, 2024. The event is organised by the Poznan University of Technology under the auspices of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.
Nobel Prizes 2024: AI in Physics and Chemistry
2024-10-17
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 Leaps into the future of computing
2024-09-04
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.
International Media on PSNC
2024-09-03
Here is a short sellection of recent articles on PSNC that have appeared in some international media.
Dariah.lab: cultural heritage documentation
2024-04-19
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.
Experiments using the largest IBM Q quantum computers
2024-04-14
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.
Aviation investment in Kąkolewo
2024-04-12
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.
“Knowledge-based technologies can be good for health” – an interview with Professor Michał Nowicki
2024-04-07
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.
About PSNC anniversary in GÉANT CONNECT
2024-04-03
The latest issue of "CONNECT" magazine, which focuses on the GÉANT network and community, published an article on three decades of activity of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. The publication describes the most important events in the history of the PSNC, which is an important international node of the European Research Area in the field of information technology infrastructure for science and an important research and development center for information and communication technologies.
Polish PRACE-LAB and PRACE-LAB2 HPC installations in the TOP500
2024-11-22
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.
PSNC’s “Proste pismo” at the Congress of Effective Communication
2024-11-09
On 29 October 2024, Warsaw hosted the Congress of Effective Communication, organized by the Polish Language Foundation. During the expert panel Jarosław Liberek, PhD (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Tomasz Hoffman, PhD (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center) presented "Proste pismo" (Simple Writing) – a universal tool for simplifying complex written texts, which had been created as a result of cooperation between the Poznań City Hall, Adam Mickiewicz University and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.
Nobel Prizes 2024: AI in Physics and Chemistry
2024-10-17
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’s Lustre System in the Top 10 of IO500 at SC24
2024-11-21
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.
PSNC and the PIONIER Consortium at the Supercomputing 24 Conference
2024-11-07
This year's SC24 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis will take place in Atlanta, USA from 17-22 November 2024. The Georgia World Congress Center, one of the largest convention centres in the world, will be the venue for meetings, talks and inspiring presentations at the conference and the accompanying exhibition.
PSNC Leaps into the future of computing
2024-09-04
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.
Quantum Use Case Demonstration
2024-11-20
During the SC Conference had a demonstration uses two quantum-classical testbeds in PSNC, Poznan, Poland and the SC24 venue in Atlanta, USA.
ATRIUM Researchers Forum
2024-10-23
On Thursday 17 October, an international Researchers Forum was held as part of the ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) project. PSNC, as one of the partners included in the consortium, was the host of the first meeting of this kind, intended to exchange experiences of various researchers focused in the areas of digital humanities. The meeting was organised by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).
International Media on PSNC
2024-09-03
Here is a short sellection of recent articles on PSNC that have appeared in some international media.
Distributed Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing in a post-Quantum Cryptography World
2024-11-20
Quantum computing offers huge opportunities to the research and education (R&E) community as well as to commercial enterprise. Quantum computers have the power to tackle problems far beyond the current reach of classical computing, from simulating complex protein folding and predicting meteorological phenomena to modelling financial systems.
Large-scale environmental simulations as a step towards digital twins
2024-10-21
“Becoming a zettabytes economy. Advanced data centres impact & what’s Beyond?” was a one-day Poznań meeting aimed at connecting business, science and public sector in Wielkopolska. One of the speakers of this event was Dr. Engr. Marcin Lawenda from the HPC New Architectures Department at PSNC.
Dariah.lab: cultural heritage documentation
2024-04-19
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.
Meeting of the EuroHPC HEs Communication Network at SC24 in Atlanta
2024-11-19
These informal meetings between EuroHPC JU and the communications teams of the 6 hosting entities from Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain aim to facilitate information exchange, share best practices, and strengthen communication synergies. Last session, which we had the pleasure of participating in, focused on presenting the common EuroHPC communication strategy and preparing for the implementation of milestones and upcoming events.
The first official launch of EOSC EU NODE
2024-10-14
October 10th 2024 was the first official launch of EOSC EU NODE, a reference node for EOSC provided by the European Commission. The presentation was held for European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) and EOSC Association.
Experiments using the largest IBM Q quantum computers
2024-04-14
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.
There’s a lot going on during SC24
2024-11-19
On Monday, our colleague and expert in quantum technologies, Piotr Rydlichowski, took part in a workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (#INDIS) and highlighted the advancements in high-speed networking of this year SC24' Network Research Exhibition (#NRE - Network Research Exhibitions) powered by SCinet.
PSNC projects at AGRO SHOW
2024-10-14
The 25th edition of the International Agricultural Exhibition AGRO SHOW took place in Bednary near Poznań between 20 and 22 September 2024. One of the events during the exhibition was the presentation of the AgriFoodTEF project, which was created by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, among others.
Aviation investment in Kąkolewo
2024-04-12
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.
World’s First Multi-QPU, Multi-GPU, Multi-CPU Quantum Use Case Demonstration
2024-11-18
In a groundbreaking project, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland has worked with NVIDIA and ORCA Computing to demonstrate the world's first hybrid computing architecture at PSNC involving a multi-user HPC environment supporting multiple quantum processing units (QPUs), alongside multi-GPU and multi-CPU job execution. PSNC researchers have also trained a hybrid classical-quantum machine learning algorithm within this environment. This work is a first step toward demonstrating the importance of integrating QPUs into hybrid classical-quantum supercomputing environments.
Autumn in Poznań with Géant and SIG-MSP
2024-10-14
On 24 October 2024 Poznań, also known as the Capital of Wielkopolska region, will host the autumn meeting of SIG-MSP (Special Interest Group – Management of Service Portfolios) which operates under the auspices of the major European computer network GÉANT. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center will be the co-host of this event, which is going to bring together members of National Research and Education Networks from all over Europe.
“Knowledge-based technologies can be good for health” – an interview with Professor Michał Nowicki
2024-04-07
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.
PSNC team on SC24
2024-11-18
During the SC24 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, our experts will be happy to tell you about the projects that we have been implementing for over 30 years, both for research institutions, scientific communities and business. Visit our booth number 1149 to learn more about our research and development center. Maybe this will be the first step to start cooperation with us? See, who you can meet and talk to during SC24.
PSNC is the patron of the National Conference for Young Scientists
2024-10-02
“Contemporary trends and perspectives in computer science and management" is the motto of the 1st National Conference for Young Scientists, which will take place on 17 and 18 October, 2024. The event is organised by the Poznan University of Technology under the auspices of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.
About PSNC anniversary in GÉANT CONNECT
2024-04-03
The latest issue of "CONNECT" magazine, which focuses on the GÉANT network and community, published an article on three decades of activity of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. The publication describes the most important events in the history of the PSNC, which is an important international node of the European Research Area in the field of information technology infrastructure for science and an important research and development center for information and communication technologies.