Articles and reports

“Street of Memories – Z 20”: Let’s rediscover the history of Zwierzyniecka 20

PSNC together with the Posnania City Publishing House invites you to participate in an unusual project. Nowadays, the “living” social innovation laboratories are located in the Art Nouveau tenement house at 20 Zwierzyniecka Street in Poznań. This place is called PSNC FutureLab. What was it like many years ago? Social action is supposed to help uncover these secrets.

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Euronews material about the INSENSION project

One of the most popular TV stations – Euronews prepared material about the Insension – Personalized ICT platform for people with PIMD project. The report is available on the station’s website and on YouTube.

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10 years of “live” otolaryngological surgery in Poznań

Exactly 10 years ago – in October 2009 – the first direct transmission of otolaryngological surgery was carried out in cooperation with the Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology Clinic of the Clinical Hospital. Heliodor Święcicki, Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań and the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

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M2DC: The Future of Modular Microserver Technology

A new class of low-power TCO-optimised appliances with built-in efficiency and dependability enhancements is being developed at EU level by the M2DC project. It is easy to integrate with a broad ecosystem of management software and fully software-defined to enable optimisation for a variety of future demanding applications in a cost-effective way.

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VISIONAIR – Remote collaboration for 3D designers

Research actions carried out in the VISIONAIR project and aiming in implementation and testing the remote collaboration of multiple designers in locations distributed across the Europe have been completed and presented to wider publicity during two demonstration events in 2014. Research conducted by PSNC and its partners (KTH from Sweden, University of Bristol from U.K., University of Twente from Netherlands, I2CAT from Spain and University of Kaiserslautern from Germany) focused on enabling designers to simultaneously edit complex 3D models and allowing them the live observation of their work results using advanced visualization systems, just to mention holographic table, 3D UHD displays and CAVE. As the basic platform for rendering PSNC proposed VITRALL software, which was previously designed and developed by PSNC. For high resolution visualization requirements, the software was modified and adjusted during the VISIONAIR project.

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Digital Libraries: dLibra the most popular in Poland

The number of digital libraries registered in the DLF Digitial Libraries Database reached recently 80, and if the dynamics of growth will be as good as it is, then by the end of the year this number may even reach 100. Because of this, we have decided to prepare a basic analysis showing, which software is presently used in Poland as a basis for digital libraries.

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