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As part of the PRACE-LAB project, an agreement was signed to build a national infrastructure for parallel computing and data infrastructure. The created infrastructure will provide its services in the national public cloud and private data and processing cloud. PSNC, as a national academic computing center and operator of metropolitan area networks, is one of the project members.

On the second day of the Ars Elektronica festival, which is held online this year, PSNC presented the material in 8K resolution entitled “The Meeting Point”. It was prepared as a live streaming from the CBPIO building. We invite you to have a look at the photos from this event.

The first version of the SSH system was officially launched on June 30 in a dedicated session at the annual ICTeSSH conference. The graphic design and the server part (backend) of the system were developed to a large extent by PSNC.

Due to the prevailing coronavirus epidemic, this year’s electronic enrollment in educational institutions in the Nabor system was different from the previous ones. The system was implemented, among others in nurseries in Warsaw and Wroclaw, where recruitment is carried out continuously and throughout the year.

After three years of cooperation, the Immersifyproject is coming to an end. Some of the project’s results were demonstrated one last time in a live stream from Poland to Austria on June 17th, concluding the developing phase of the project. While Immersifyofficially ended with a panel at Festival de Cannes’ Marché du Film–Cannes XR, which was being held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the project partners are continuing their research on future developments in the field of immersive media.

The challenge of breaking the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus code was undertaken by a team of scientists from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Paweł Zmora from the Department of Structural Chemistry and Biology of Nucleic Acids, IBCH PAS, talks about the details in the newest episode of Pionier.TV “Hot science”.

The DIH4CPS consortium has now launched their first Open Call for proposals in the project dedicated to companies that want to develop their own implementation of CPES (Cyber physical and embedded systems) technology in a process, product or service, in order to increase the innovation and technological advancement indicators.

In the latest episode of the popular science series “Hot Science” Pionier.TV, prepared by the PSNC TV team, the vice president of the Blockchain Poland Association – Dr Agata Slater brings closer the blockchain technology.

The team implementing the DEMETER project invites beekeepers to take part in a survey on optimizing pollination by bees. The aim of the survey is to examine the interest in tools that provide electronic communication between beekeepers and farmers.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed almost every aspect of ​​our lives – from everyday, private matters to professional work. The pandemic has left its mark on culture and art, especially film and theatre. Cinemas, galleries and theaters were closed for many weeks. Thanks to the cooperation of PSNC and Teatr Nowy in Poznan, we managed to make direct broadcasts of several performances, attracting thousands of viewers in front of computer screens.

PSNC Laboratory of Innovative Education invites teachers to take part in the educational study “Teachers and remote education”. The survey aims to gather opinions and experiences related to teachers’ work during the coronavirus epidemic.

During the Ars Electronica 2019 Festival (Linz, Austria), a network streaming show from Poznan, implemented by PSNC, was sent to Deep Space 8K in Linz. In the “Around Art” cycle, we’ll take a closer look at one of the first live 8K implementations of this kind in the world.