Events

During the three-day eChallenges e-2010 Conference Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center presented its achievements. On the last day of the event two projects were presented: Wielkopolska Center of Telemedicine and Virtual Laboratory of Interactive Teaching.

From 1st to 4th November in Atlanta (USA) will take place a meeting of the prestigious Internet2 Consortium, developing and implementing network technologies, primarily using high-speed data transfer. The meeting will be attended by representatives from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and PIONIER Consortium.

For three days, from October 26 to 28, representatives of competence centers from around the world discussed on the fifteenth plenary meeting of QualiPSo in Poznan. The meeting was an attempt to summarize the project ending early next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDCsdod6TsPromotion of new trends and solutions in the field of Internet technologies and their application by government agencies and other organizations are the main aims of this year’s eChallenges Conference, held on October 27-29 in Warsaw. On one of the stands are presented services of Platform for e-Science – PLATON, which is one of the largest projects in the PIONIER network.

On 1-3 December 2010 in Wrocław the second edition of the i3 Conference: Internet – Infrastructure – Innovation will be held. Only until the end of October, you can submit your abstracts and speakers reported.

Public-private partnership in the ICT industry was the theme of the Second ICT Wielkopolska Conference which was held on October 28 in Poznań. Participants of the meeting discussed both the opportunities and obstacles associated with this form of cooperation of ICT business and the public sector the region.

PSNC presented the possibility of real-time streaming video in high-resolution 4K (4096×2160) at a meeting of the GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility) working draft, which took place on 13 and 14 October in Geneva. Thanks to links connected especially for the occasion, based on a GLIF infrastructure, streams of video with a capacity of 250 Mbps performance, aDCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) standards, were sent.

The theme of this year’s conference, as usual, was the creation and development of digital libraries in Poland. This year, however due to the extremely important role of the European Digital Library, Europeana, there was also a special place devoted to this initiative during the meeting. The conference was held from 18th to 22nd October in Poznań.

This year’s International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition was unique in several aspects. Sixteenth edition took place in the year in which we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Polish composer. A record number of music lovers could keep track of the contest. Live webcast was available on the pages of TVP SA and the National Audiovisual Institute.

Have a look at the photo gallery of otolaryngology surgery which took place in the Department of Otolaryngology of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Live transmission from the operating room on the Internet was enabled by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

The formation of mechanisms of EU projects related to the ICT industry was a leading topic of the “European Consortia 2011-2012 – development of clustering in Wielkopolska” Conference which was held in Poznań. The conference was organized jointly by the Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Region, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Wielkopolska ICT Cluster.

Laptops instead of notebooks on school desks? This is not another concept of science fiction film director, but everyday life in gymnasium No. 56 in Poznań. Since September the school has the first in Poznań, and the third in the country, e-class.