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Get Geecon experience once again

In May, the participants were hosted in Poznan on the second edition of the GeeCON conference. The topics of the conference concerned the Java language and technologies based on Java Virtual Machine. In the capital of Wielkopolska met 450 JAVA fans.

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PIONIER network is looping

In November two investments in expansion of Polish Optical Internet PIONIER network – a nationwide broadband optical science network – were completed. In the south of the country the construction of new fiber optic line came to an end, and the north has been enriched by a new optical transmission system.

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“NUKAT – autostrada informacji cyfrowej”: first effects for readers

At the end of October 2010 e-bUW made available first title digitized in frame of the “NUKAT – autostrada informacji cyfrowej” project. According to e-bUW it is “Nowy Pamiętnik Warszawski: [dziennik historyczny, polityczny, tudzież nauk i umiejętności]”, periodical published in Prussian Warsaw by Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski.

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Access IT: e-learning educational courses

One of the main aims of the ACCESS IT project is to support digitisation of cultural heritage and development of digital libraries in small memory institutions in three target countries covered by this project. In the second half of October these countries held a series of conferences.

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Record number of radio listeners

Internet radios acting through a system EMITER, that run in the PIONIER network, are getting more and more popular. Currently, it transmits a signal of more than 50 radio stations, focusing an average of 22,000 recipients at the same time.

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MIM considered best among urban services

Official website of the City of Poznan – Multimedia City Guide (MIM) won in the ranking of municipal, marshals and provincial offices websites by “IT in government” – monthly magazine for IT professionals and managers of public sector. It is worth noting that the author of the award-winning technical side of the portal is the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

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Check the next generation Forge! New release of Qualipso Factory is out!

QualiPSo EU Project announces the release of the new QualiPSo Factory 0.6. Design based on the SCA (Service Component Architecture) approach, it is, a modular, flexible and customizable open source forge thought for the management and development at industrial level of the future open source projects and solutions. The user interface is based on GWT and OpenParts framework.

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Supply of equipment in the PLATON project

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center began the supply of equipment for the PLATON project. As a result of two tenders, the infrastructure for Campus services and Archiving Services has been chosen.

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Gadu-Gadu is 10 years old!

The most popular Polish instant messenger Gadu-Gadu is 10 years old. GG currently boasts of more than 10 million loyal community. On the occasion of the anniversary a special web service was launched.

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An innovative production platform for e-VLBI services

The European Commission has awarded the Novel Explorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services project (NEXPReS) funds to advance data transfer, buffering, storage and distributed computing technologies. The improvements are expected to significantly enhance electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) services offered by the European VLBI Network (EVN) to the entire radio astronomy community and, it is hoped, to benefit science research infrastructure across fields. This work is part of the EVN’s “e-EVN Programme” of e-VLBI developments, officially recognised as a SKA Pathfinder Technology for its anticipated impact on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), as well as the recently inaugurated LOw Frequency Array (LOFAR).

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