Articles and reports

As part of the NLPQT project, PSNC launched the first test connection of the system for distribution of the optical carrier at the end of January (optical reference frequency generated by optical clocks), i.e. ultra-precise and ultra-stable frequency standard. The system is also being developed thanks to close cooperation with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow.

10 years of work of several people, 1 157 examined cases and over 750 hours of video recordings – the result is the world’s largest database of physiological database of our emotions. We invite you to read the article on the POPANE database – the largest open and publicly available collection of psychophysiological data on emotions.

Poland, Poznań, 04 February 2022 – The first IBM Quantum Innovation Center in Central and Eastern Europe will be located in Poznan. The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences will join the IBM Quantum Network, to explore the development of quantum computing applications including advancing artificial intelligence solutions, space technologies, metrology and crisis modeling.

PSNC employees- Mikołaj Buchwald, Szymon Kupiński and Adam Bykowski – together with the members of the Laboratory of Health Psychophysiology at the Adam Mickiewicz University created the largest physiological database of emotions in the world! It was published on 20 January 2022 in Scientific Data – a journal of the Nature publication group.

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.