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The New Year offers us new perspectives, presents new challenges, we look in future with hope of something new and better. Every New Year is also an occasion to draw conclusions, reflections on what we have done, what we have achieved in the past year. For Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center year 2010 was unique in several aspects. We present a brief summary of PSNC’s activity in the last twelve months.

To all those who followed our success by visiting our website in the outgoing year, thank you.

Over the next year 2011 we wish you only triumphs and continuous development.

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Two investments in construction of Polish Optical Internet PIONIER network – a nationwide broadband optical science network – were completed in December.

4K Projector (SONY SRX T-105) with a passive polarization system enables transferring the high resolution signal in 3D and was already installed in the 4K Laboratory of Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

PSNC Security Team tries to reach the widest possible number of Web users. This time representative of the team – Gerard Frankowski visited Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych im. Stanisława Staszica w Poznaniu. Meeting with security specialist was very popular among students.

On the 15th of December the total number of publications in digital libraries cooperating with the...

In early December in Madrit a meeting initiating a new research project called Wf4Ever was held. It aims at providing the methods and tools required to ensure the long-term storage of scientific workflows in order to support the scientific discovery process and the development of new scientific assets.

„The problem of assuring homeland security as a challenge for Polish UE Presidency in 2011” was the main issue of this year’s Polish Platform for Homeland Security Conference, traditionally hosted in the conference centre of PAS Institute of Mathematics in Będlewo near Poznań. The event was also attended by representatives of the PSNC.

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.

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.

Wielkopolska Marshal Office is creating a strategy for promoting economy of the region for the next 10 years. Poznań Supercomputing and Network Center has been invited to cooperate in developing the document.

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.