Articles and reports

For over 30 years, the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center has been providing access to world-class e-Infrastructure, thus creating a unique research and development environment working towards socio-economic Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The projects implemented in this area at PSNC include ILIAD and HIDALGO2.

The past year 2023 has brought many interesting solutions in the field of digital libraries and the aggregation of digital cultural heritage data. In cooperation with the Silesian Library and the University of Wrocław the following activities were carried out: the development of the DInGO software package, which resulted in the first implementations of the seventh generation of the dLibra system, characterised by a new layout of the user interface, a new method of searching resources made available in the system and their presentation taking into account the occurrence of search terms in the content of the object.

Poland’s first quantum photonic computing systems were installed at the beginning of December 2023. Two machines from ORCA Computing, purchased as part of the EuroHPC-PL project, were delivered to the PSNC headquarters. We invite you to listen to Radio TOK FM’s interview with Piotr Rydlichowski – a specialist in quantum technologies from PSNC’s Network and Service Infrastructure Department – about how to exploit the potential of these systems.

At the end of 2021, the PSNC, together with 5 partners from Poland, Spain, Germany and Slovenia, completed the INSENSION project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. This project was the world’s first attempt to create a technological solution that enables people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PIMD) to use digital services and applications. The target group of the project was people who remain at a presymbolic level of communication – people who can only interact with their environment in a non-symbolic way. Therefore, the technology and prototype developed in the project has great potential to support the interaction of people with PIMD with others.

For the Conference4me team, 2024 will be already the 13th year of intense activity in the conference segment of the mobile event application market. Worldwide, in 67 countries, the app has been installed by more than 250,000 users on Android and iOS platforms, during 757 conferences and 447 exhibitions.

We invite you to read the PSNC 2023 Annual Report, which not only summarises the activities of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center over the past year, but also marks the twelve-month celebration of the 30th anniversary of the PSNC’s activities and the 20th anniversary of the PIONIER Consortium.

British quantum computer developer ORCA Computing has been selected by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) to provide two ORCA Computing PT-1 quantum photonics systems. Funded under the Polish program, the systems will be installed at the PSNC’s high-performance computing data center located in Poznań, Poland and will accelerate its work in quantum computing across a range of scientific and application areas including biology, chemistry and machine learning.

Safe-Home is an international project involving scientific institutions, universities and entrepreneurs from Portugal, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Poland, represented by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and medvc.eu company. The non-invasive system for monitoring the health and wellbeing of the elderly was featured on Europa Minha by the Portuguese RTP TV channel.

As part of the cooperation between the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, a study was carried out to present models of amateur sport participation during the COVID-19 restrictions on outdoor activities. The results of the research have been published in the latest issue of the university journal “Man and Society”.

The latest issue of the American bimonthly magazine “Psychology Today” features an interview with Ed Fennell, with whom Michał Kosiedowski – Head of the Future Internet Services Department at PSNC – is working to prepare the next stages of work in projects developing technology to support interaction with the environment for people with profound multiple intellectual disabilities.

SLICES is a new research infrastructure on the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) roadmap, bringing together 21 partners from 14 countries. The aim of the current work in the consortium is to secure support from member states and the European Commission in the process of building a modern research infrastructure for research on a European scale. Bartosz Belter, Head of the PSNC’s New Generation Networks Department, gave an interview opresenting the specifics of the project.

We invite you to learn about the results of the Polish IBM Quantum Innovation Center within the framework of the first stage of activity in 2022. The document is the result of cooperation between many scientific and research teams in Poland and was created on the basis of the analytical, programming and experimental tasks performed with access to the resource infrastructure of IBM Quantum computers.