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During this year’s edition of InfoShare 2017, one of the largest technology events in Central and Eastern Europe, Intel has announced the launch and assumptions of its pilot program – Intel Make Tomorrow Poland. Polish partners of the project are: PSNC, Copernicus Science Center, Information Society Development Foundation, Educational Entrepreneurship Foundation and Children’s University Foundation.

The IBM research team in Zurich set up a project to develop a methodology for estimating the performance, power consumption and cost of exascale systems. The project is called Algorithms and Machines (A&M) and is part of DOME, a joint program with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON). Within the project PSNC offered access to Orzel / Eagle, a supercomputer to support the project.

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has published a new version of its Roadmap document. The e-IRG Roadmap 2016 is taking up the e-Infrastructure Commons concept. The document intends to define a clear route on how to evolve the European e-Infrastructure system further. The new Roadmap edition aims to turn the vision of the e-Infrastructure Commons into reality by 2020, and has recommendations to all stakeholders to progress on the way towards the e-Infrastructure Commons. The document was prepared by PSNC employees: Marcin Lawenda, Ph.D. and Norbert Meyer, Ph.D.

The EU H2020 ESCAPE project (www.hpc-escape.eu) brings together numerical weather prediction (NWP), climate and high-performance computing (HPC) communities to develop world-class, extreme-scale computing capabilities for European operational NWP and future climate models. One of the challenges is to execute complex state-of-the-art models of the atmosphere within tight production schedules.

From 18th to 20th October 2016 the 1st ESCAPE Dissemination and Training Workshop on “Towards Energy-efficient Scalable Algorithms for Weather- and Climate Prediction: Status and Prospects” took place at the Konventum Conference Centre (Elsinore/ Helsingor, Denmark). In total, around 50 researchers and students attended the event from universities, research institutions and companies giving 24 oral presentations.

The EU-funded project ESCAPE is looking at improving code efficiency for both weather and climate modelling. ESCAPE is organising its 1st Dissemination and Training workshop between the 18th and 20th October 2016 in Elsinore, Denmark.

Conference4me supports another large conference – GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016. Conference will take place in Barcelona 22-25 February 2016. This is the biggest and most important annual gathering for the world mobile industry.

On 26-30 October SONY delivered to PSNC 8K live cameras and IP Live transmission system, which was bought as a part of the New UHD Media Services in Optical Networks Laboratory of the Future ICT project.

Sony has today announced it is outfitting the PSNC UHD research laboratory with 8K 3D Live over IP technology. The 8K 3D solutions will increase the competitive leadership of The Polish research center and scientific research by delivering detailed, high-quality video transmission over high-speed networks with low-latency, facilitating improved remote production and collaboration among researchers and artists across the country and in Europe.

At the beginning of August 2015 Digital National Museum in Warsaw has been upgraded to the newest version of dMuseion – version 1.1.0.

dArceo is a long term preservation system for source data (e.g. master files), initially developed by PSNC as a part of the SYNAT project . This system has been successfully included in the PSNC package DInGO – the set of tools to digitize and share collections on-line and it is currently used by dozens of Polish cultural and scientific institutions.

The registration for 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries organized in Poznan, Poland on 14-18.09.2015 is now open! Early registration deadline is the end of July, late registration closes in the end of August.