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On December 10 and 11 2019, the ‘School Escape Room’ and ‘Interactive School Television’ educational workshops organized by the Wielkopolska School Superintendent in Poznań and PSNC took place at the PSNC headquarters.

We invite you to the 44th episode of the scientific series PlatonTV – “Youth Science” entitled “Hybrid or multi-speed – wheelchair embedded engineering”, prepared by the PlatonTV at PSNC. The material is devoted to a project developed by scientists from the Poznan University of Technology.

Modern laboratory space and hangar for testing Unmanned Aircraft with a total area of ​​1500 m² will be created as part of the “Aerosfera. Airport of Things” project, financed under the Wielkopolska Operational Program for 2014-2020, the European Regional Development Fund implemented by the Marshal’s Office of the Voivodeship of Wielkopolska. On November 26 at 12.00 Marshal Marek Woźniak, on behalf of the managing authority of WRPO 2014+, will sign the contract with the Rector of Poznan University of Technology prof. dr. hab. Tomasz Łodygowski

We invite you to the 23rd episode of the scientific cycle Time for Science entitled “In the sphere of sound”, prepared by the PSNC PlatonTV Team.

After nearly 20 years, the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center returns to the arena of the largest digital art festival in Europe – the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.

In the scope of the Immersify project PSNC decided to show that 8K streaming can be successfully performed in a lower bandwidth of 200Mbit/s, and thanks to the HEVC codec used in Immersify with a high quality and low delay of a bit more than 1 second. This allowed to perform an interactive demonstration at the TNC19 conference in Tallinn.

TNC is the biggest and most prestigious European research and education networking conference; its 35th edition was held in Tallinn (Estonia) between 16th and 20th of June 2019 and PSNC’s Immersify ambisonic project was there waiting for all the participants and guests.

The EoCoE (Energy Oriented Center of Excellence) project was officially awarded funding for another three-year period by the European Commission along with nine other Centers of Excellence in supercomputing.

EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 will take place from 13 May to 17 May 2019 in Poznań and will gather together the main HPC stakeholders in Europe. The event is co-organised by PRACE, EuroHPC, EXDCI-2, and ETP4HPC. This year’s edition is hosted by Polish PRACE Member – PSNC.

The European project PROTECTIVE has launched the pilot operation testing of the system which should enable automatic sharing of cyber security information. Operators of three European national research and education networks are involved in information sharing – PSNC (Poland), CESNET (Czech Republic) and RoEduNet (Romania).

Despite the name, television is not all about vision. Often underestimated part of transmission, but highly important for appreciation of the content quality, is sound. In some TV formats it is absolutely essential. Does immersive video require special sound? One may argue about definitions, but in some way playing a sound is always an immersive experience. The question is only about intensity.

At the beginning of November, a caesium fountain was launched at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. The device was built in the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington near London, under the direction of an outstanding specialist in the field of atomic frequency standards, Dr Krzysztof Szymaniec. The caesium fountain will join the ranks of several most accurate atomic clocks in the world and is the second such clock in Poland.