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Another, already 22-nd edition of the largest HPC environment meeting, Supercomputing Conference, took place in 14-20 of November 2009 in Portland, Oregon, USA. For the fourth time PSNC in collaboration with the PIONIER Consortium presented the Polish achievements in the branch.

On the occasion of opening of the new laboratory of high definition at Colchester, Great Britain, as a result of cooperation between PSNC and the University of Essex, the first presentation of 4K video streaming according to the standards determined by the Digital Cinema Initiatives was carried out.

The first edition of the Internet-Infrastructures-Innovations Conference in Poznan was both well organized and well attended.

The 4K Initiative was introduced during the ‘i3 Conference – Internet, Infrastructures, Innovations’.

i3: Internet-Infrastructures-Innovations. Science in the face of digital society is the name of the 1st Scientific Conference organized by PIONIER Polish Optical Internet and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

The first demonstration of stream 4K transmission was held on September 29th 2009 with the use of the RTP protocol and the JPEG2000 algorithm.

The 4K Initiative was presented during the ‘Researcher’s Night’ event on September 25th 2009.

The International Supercomputing Conference also known as ISC for the first time gathers the environment of manufacturers, software and system developers and high performance computer users. It is the largest European HPC event, taking place from 23 to 26 of June 2009 in Hamburg. It is already the third time that the PIONIER Consortium represents the Polish science at the accompanying exhibition among 120 other exhibitors from 45 countries.

The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center participated in the 4th International Film Festival Cinemagic.pl that took place in Płock, 19-21 June 2009. The PSNC was an official partner of the festival, enabling the presentation of the 4K Technology by Ted Schilowitz of the RED Digital Camera. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss the technical possibilities of development of 4K cameras provided by the RED brand. We invite you to watch our gallery.

Part of the 4K Video node was presented during the conference of the Microsoft Innovation Center – `Modern technologies closer to us`. We invite you to watch our gallery.

During this year`s edition of Poznań Media Expo television fair, the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center together with its partners: The International Fair of Poznań and the TK3 Group is proud to present the initiative of 4k high definition cinema in Poland.

Preparations for the Poznań Media Expo television fair, that is going to take place on 19-21 February 2009 at the International Fair of Poznań, are going on.