Events

On 2nd and 3rd September in Barcelona was held the first official meeting of TF-NOC working group, created under the auspices TERENA. The event was attended by representatives of the various Network Management Centers, including Wiktor Procyk of the PSNC Management Team.

The capabilities of the 4K node in Poznań, together with the process of its creation, were presented during the meeting of the CineGrid organization, whose members include the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.
Its architecture was introduced in detail and demonstrations were carried out.

On 17th of August 2010, installation of a new DWDM optical transmission system ADVA Optical Networking’s on its own fiber optic lines in relation PIONIER Elbląg – Braniewo – Gronowo was completed. In this way, there is a possibility of connecting o the PIONIER network to the research network in Russia (Kaliningrad). Currently 10 Gbit /s optical channel is available.

The registration for the 7th Task Force Meeting on Archiving has just started, the meeting will be held from 9 -10 September in Poznań. The event is periodically organized by TERENA organization (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association), this year’s edition is hosted by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

This year’s conference of the Wikimedia community will take place on 9-11 July in Gdańsk. Gdańsk defeated Amsterdam and Oxford in the race to host the event.

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center hosted thirteen employees from embassies of different countries in Germany last weekend. Diplomats from Albania, Romania, China, Greece, Serbia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Poland arrived in Poznań in the program of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Visitors were presented the activity of PSNC, as one of the key features of Wielkopolska region.

Between 16th and 18th of June this year in Austin (TX, USA) the Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertation ETD2010 was organized by NDLTD. On the symposium the representatives of scientific institutions from all over the world were exchanging experience related to popularization of the idea of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and also to collecting ETDs and making them available on-line. Main activities in this subject from USA, Canada, several countries from Central and South America and also Africa and Europe were presented.

A call for papers for the third edition of the Polish Digital Libraries Conference is on-line now....

Are you a football fan, but you can not watch the World Cup 2010 on TV? You can use the suggestions of TVP. Polish Television in cooperation with Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in the network will broadcast all the events played at stadiums in South Africa.

At the Research for Industry Fair scientists from the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center presented the latest innovations in technology, developed in the center. Professionals from the Applications Department of PSNC developed an application which enables viewing and editing photos by performing gestures in front of a camera.

“ICT for open access to scientific information” was the motto was held on 28 May in Brussels headquarters of the Promotion of Science Polish Academy of Sciences meeting with experts of the European Commission. The event, part of the project “Poland Meetings”, also attended by representatives of Polish research teams, including the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

The stand of Consortium PIONIER and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center enjoyed great interest of conference attendees this year. Network users could see there the results of Polish videoconference infrastructure in the PIONIER network, as well as remote, network, high-resolution video transmission – 4K, four times greater than modern, universal HD.