Articles and reports

We invite you to read the report on the activities of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in 2021. Digital science, industry and society are the areas in which we present our research and development as well as implementation achievements.

For the third year in a row, PSNC was involved in the organisation of the CLAW workshop on crisis management for the GÉANT project community. As last year, the situation related to the pandemic, forced the organisers to create a completely new form of conducting the training, entirely online. One hundred people from all over the world took part in this year’s edition; in addition to European institutions, we also hosted representatives from Canada, Ghana and Australia.

Recently, there has been a lot of new information about Polish supercomputers. All because of the TOP500 list identifying the fastest supercomputers in the world, which was announced at the SC’21 Conference (Supercomputing). Polish machines are also present in this prestigious, which were commissioned as part of the PRACE-LAB project. A press article devoted to this subject appeared in “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” journal.

Immersion in sound is experiencing its renaissance and is again the subject of interest among scientists and entrepreneurs. But this solution has been known since the 1970s, when Michael Gerzon dealt with ambisonic sound. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has created an installation that allows you to hear sound in a 360-degree perspective.

The football team of KKS Lech Poznań established cooperation with the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. This is another stage of enriching the tools of the club’s scientific department which aims to cooperate with entities from Wielkopolska region. The trilateral agreement also includes the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

Do robots and expeditions to Mars interest artists? Of course! Futuristic visions of the world have long inspired creators. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and Spin Digital “connected” Ars Electronica Festival and European Rover Challenge, enabling synergy of space researchers and artists. All thanks to new technologies and 8K streaming.

PSNC has been developing the Nabor system, an online recruitment platform for educational institutions, since 2003. A new module called Nabor-Attendance was added to the system, which has already an established position on the market throughout the country. The first kindergartens have been using it since spring 2020.

One of the most popular weekly magazines devoted to information technology and management published an interview with Norbert Meyer, Ph.D. – Director of the Data Processing Technologies Division of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and also PRACE-LAB project coordinator.

eDWIN is one of the largest projects aimed at digitalization and modernization of Polish agriculture. But its implementation would be very difficult without the cooperation of the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center in Poznan with PSNC, where the computing center and project servers are located.

At the TNC21 conference, a demonstration system was launched to show possible interoperability between devices in a network with quantum key distribution. ADVA, ID Quantique and PSNC participated in the demonstration.

In Poznan PSNC started the first system of quantum communication and cryptography. It’s the first project of this type in Poland based on operational telecommunications environment. It guarantees secure network connections resistant to hacker attacks.

The main British news channel published an online video devoted to the educational program developed by INTEL and implemented in Poland by PSNC Innovative Education Laboratory. The technological facilities and the potential of PSNC Future Labs were presented in the material.