Events

For three days, from 20 to 22 December, Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains hosted the third edition of the conference “GridLab – The Next 3rd Decade and the Future of Computing”, organised in cooperation with the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wyoming. The event was attended by guests from the United States, Austria, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.

As part of the European Commission’s policy, the European association EOSC aisbl has been established, bringing together more than 100 governmental entities, universities, research and development units and entities from the economic area interested in implementing the concept of open data. The EOSC aisbl Steering Committee (General Assembly), the EOSC Implementation Group and working groups, working to define the principles and plan for open data and open science in accordance with FAIR principles, will work together with a consortium established by PSNC over the next few years (2024-2027) to build an open data ecosystem in Europe.

As a result of the tender launched by the European Commission in December 2022 for the provision of services for open science under the name: “Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Platform”, PSNC obtained a contract for the provision of data storage services, managed IaaS environments and containers (Managed Container Platform and Virtual Machine Services for the EOSC Exchange – Infrastructure Services).

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, an IBM Quantum Innovation Center in Poland, participated actively this year in the IBM Quantum Summit and IBM Practitioners Forum 2023 by presenting its quantum computing research scope and achievements. PSNC has actively supported quantum computing research, benchmarking and integration with classical HPC infrastructure and services in Poland in different use cases and application areas.

Bio-IT World is the world’s most prestigious event showcasing technologies supporting precision medicine. During this year’s edition, hosted in London (November 29-30, 2023), leading experts from academia, government, biopharmaceuticals and industry shared their research results. The conference was attended by the Director of PSNC – dr Cezary Mazurek.

The kick-off meeting (November 28-30, 2023) of the second edition of the Superheroes 4 Science project was held in Bratislava. The projest’s aim is to popularize issues related to HPC (High-performance computing) among young people. The event was attended by representatives of three institutions representing the Visegrad Group countries, including representatives of PSNC.

On November 22 and 23, 2023, a PRACE-LAB2 project training for HPC users was held at the PSNC headquarters. Intel specialists provided knowledge on the capabilities of new tools supporting hybrid processing in systems equipped with hardware accelerators. The workshop was led by Stephen Blair-Chappell – an independent consultant and certified Intel oneAPI instructor.

The first meeting as part of the EDIH HPC4Poland project took place in the PSNC Future Labs spaces on November 9, 2023. The consortium met to refine operational and business processes. PSNC, the project leader, was represented by Cezary Mazurek, Ph.D. Dr Adam Olszewski Ph.D., Tomasz Konopka, Jakub Kamza, Anna Bednarska and Wojciech Witczak.

One of the largest Polish scientific events related to biomedical engineering returns to Poznan. We are talking about the 5th edition of the Biomedical Engineering Conference, which will take place at Poznan University of Technology on October 26-27, 2023. The event is held under the honorary patronage of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

“Quantum-ready, future-ready” – this was the slogan of this year’s European Quantum Technology Conference (EQTC) held in Hannover. The event, held every two years, is an opportunity to bring together the European community developing and implementing quantum technologies – quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum metrology. It is an opportunity to meet both the scientific community and companies that commercialise and implement solutions based on quantum technologies.

Nearly 100 exhibitors, almost 2,000 visitors and over 50 speakers – these are the numbers of this year’s fourth edition of Smart City Expo Poland held in Łódź on October 18-19, 2023. PSNC’s exhibition booth will showcase projects implemented by the Internet of Things Technologies department, the Smart Kampus laboratory within the PIONIER-LAB project and other projects implemented around IoT and mobile applications.

On October 18 and 19, 2023, the final conference of the DARIAH-PL project will be held at the PSNC headquarters. The event will be an opportunity to summarise the three-year project implementation and to present its results. Participants will learn about the solutions and resources developed in various areas of the humanities and arts sciences, as well as the Dariah.lab infrastructure integrating these solutions.