Introduction

Norbert Meyer

Plan-E meeting, 2017-04-28, Poznań, PL

PSNC – ICT CenterPSNC, affiliated to the Institute of BioorganicChemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences, foundedin 1993, is a well-known institution of researchand development in the field of ICT in Europe and an important hub for the European ResearchArea in the field of science infrastructure.

Projects implemented in the framework of European and international research programmescover many areas, including: radio astronomy, medicine, new media, knowledge platforms and digital libraries, applications of grand challenges, cyber security and Future Internet technologies.

PSNC completed over 170 such projects, 22 in the Horizon 2020 programme.

PSNC – Prizes and awardsPSNC has won numerous prestigious awards.

In 2004, 2010 and 2016 PSNC was awarded the Crystal Brussels Prizes in recognition of outstanding implementation of the EU projects.

PSNC - Center for e-Infrastructures

• National broadband scientific network PIONIER

• Municipal computer network - POZMAN

• Center for High Performance Computing

• Data Repositories and Digital Libraries Federation

HPC Center• HPC infrastructure• PC clusters• GP-GPU clusters• Prototypes on future promising technologies

• Hierarchical data infrastructure• Fast external source of data (computing)• Part of National Data Storage• Part of European Data Infrastructure

Environment:•Air, liquid coolled systems•Video monitoring, fire protection•24h monitoring

PSNC is part of:•European HPC infrastructure (PRACE)•European and national grid infrastructure (EGI, PL-GRID)•National (Platon, NDS) and European data infrastructure(EUDAT)

Data Centres• Geographical location

Primary Data Centre

• 3 levels• 1626 sqm

• 2 IT floors capable to host 208 IT racks each

Primary Data Centre

Secondary Data Centre

• 320 sqm

• 1 level• Cooling systems (air, liquid)• UPS systems + generators

• Direct connections to the national fibreoptic network Pionier (100 Gbps)

• Direct connections to the GEANT network – high bandwidth (10x, 40 Gbps)

Metropolitan Area Network - POZMAN

220 km of own Fiber Optic Cables in the city of Poznań

✓ 600k city population

✓ 105 connections to R&D institutions & Univ.

✓ Transmission technologies

10 Gigabit Ethernet with MPLS

✓ Users access

10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps

Wi-Fi access

Wireless Poznań (+ EDUROAM)

– a joint project Poznań City Hall and PSNC

National Research and Education Network - PIONIER (topology)

• Area 312k sq km

• Population 38M

• Main academic centers 21

• State universities 165+

• Students 2M+

• R&D institutions and Univ. interconnected via PIONIER network 700+

PIONIER global collaboration

GÉANT GLIF

PIONIER EU

PSNC - Center for Research and Development

• Next generation networks

• High Performance Computing, grids and cloud

computing

• Grand challenges applications

• New media and visualization technologies

• Knowledge Platforms

• Future Internet - technologies, applications

and services for the Information Society

• Cybersecurity

CBPIO - Polish Optical Internet Research Center• CBPIO is a modern complex offering many

specialized facilities for R&D community. In addition to modern laboratories, the main hub of Polish Optical Network PIONIER is located at CBPIO, connecting Poland with the pan-European GÉANT network and directly to CERN, LOFAR and High Performance Computing Centers, linked to European PRACEand EUDAT initiatives. CBPIO was officially opened 22 September 2015.

• For more than 15 years of participation inEuropean research projects, our list of partnersfrom 62 countries exceeded 1000 institutions.

International cooperation

1993 1997 2003 20132000 2010

Development cooperationwith SIEMENS/TEKTRONIX

European Grid ForumGÉANT

Scientific cooperation with EU(EU Framework Programmes)

SUN Center of Excellence

TNC 2005

Scientific cooperation with USA(UCoMS)

GLIF

Future Internet Week

NVIDIA CUDA ResearchCenter

Scientific cooperation with Japan(FELIX)

Microsoft Innovation Center

EUNIS 2000

TERENA membership

TEN-155

2006 2016

TPDL 2015

EFITA 2015

Oracle Technology Center

Open Source Competence Center

PSNC-Huawei Innovation Center

The increase of R&D international projects

1998 2002 2006 2015 2022

8(1)

22(3)

60(4)

FP5 FP6 FP7 Horizon2020

22(2)

PSNC – Horizon 2020 projectsPSNC implements 22 projects in Horizon 2020 Programme and coordinates 2 projectsin the field of ICT, in such areas like:

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions;

• Research infrastructure;

• Information and communicaton technologies;

• Future and emerging technologies;

• Secure societies.

The amount of EU suport for the projects:10 900 000 €

PSNC – Horizon 2020 projectsEPICNIGHT Enthusiasm, Passion, Inspiration, Challenge (EPIC) – join us during the Researchers’ Night and see for yourself

how by connecting science and passion one can make a difference!EVERYDAYNIGHT Wielkopolska Researchers’ Night welcomes - Let the experience of the Night last every day!EUROfusion Participation in the Common European EURATOM Programme, complementing Horizon 2020 programCOMPLETE Communication Platform for Tenders of Novels Transport Networks ROAM Revolutionising optical fibre transmission and networking using the Orbital Angular Momentum of lightSESAME NET Supercomputing Expertise for SmAll and Medium Enterprise NetworkINDIGO-DataCloud INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitationEUDAT2020 The collaborative Pan-European infrastructure providing research data services and consultancy for ResearchersAARC Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration (AARC)PRACE-4IP PRACE 4th Implementation Phase ProjectComPat Computing Patterns for High Performance Multiscale ComputingESCAPE Energy-efficient SCalable Algorithms for weather Prediction at ExascaleEVER-EST European Virtual Environment for Research - Earth Science Themes: a solutionCOEGSS Center of Excellence for Global Systems ScienceEoCoE Energy oriented Centre of Excellence for computer applicationsGN4-1/Geant 2020 GÉANT Research and Education NetworkingGNR-2/Geant 2020 GÉANT Research and Education NetworkingsymbIoTe Symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environmentsImmersiaTV Immersive Experiences around TV, an integrated toolset for the production of immersive content across devices.M2DC Modular Microserver DataCentrePROTECTIVE Proactive Risk Management through Improved Cyber Situational Awareness — PROTECTIVEi4ms Feasibility for cloud based simulation services hub to accelerate the servitization processes in smart factories

(RDMI-Hub Poznan 1)

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

PSNC – Map of R&D projects

LABORATORY OF VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION

• live & VoD TV content production in HD (Studio/OB-VAN)

• 3D objects scanning, modeling and rendering

• super slow motion film shooting (1000 FPS/4K)

• underwater film shooting (6K)

• aerial shooting using cinema drone (6K)

• high-speed shooting using robotic arm (up to 8K)

• 2D/3D video&audio postproduction, colorcorrection

LABORATORY OF UHD NEW MEDIA SERVICES IN OPTICAL NETWORKS

• ultra High Resolution – 8K workflow from recording, through production, processing up to display

• 8K active stereoscopy

• 6-meter-wide 8K 3D High Frame Rate display wall

• film production and editing in 8K 3D HFR/HDR

• compressed and uncompressed 8K 3D video transmission over IP

LABORATORY OF SIMULATION AND INTEGRATED CONTROL OF RESOURCES IN MULTI -DOMAIN NETWORK ECOSYSTEMS

• monitoring of national network PIONIER

• monitoring of international connectivity

• monitoring of metropolitan network POZMAN

• monitoring of network and computing of PSNC

• continuous support for network issues

• troubleshooting of problems

LABORATORY OF REMOTE PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF IMMERSIVE CONTENT• real-time image processing and analysis, basing on

advanced algorithms for detecting and tracing individuals

• distributed sensor networks

• building and processing 3D models

• advanced networked media applications

• large-scale applications and multi-scale or complex computing models

• advanced visualization tools and hardware including VR glasses, augmented reality and modern user interfaces

• virtual experiments - development of VR and AR applications for science, engineering, business, education and medicine

LABORATORY OF TELEMEDICINE AND ICT INTEGRATION WITH THE SURROUNDINGS• adaptive services and applications

for personalized and contextualized support of users

• context-based provision of informationin private and public smart spaces

• real-time services and applications

• application of surround ICT in healthcare, wellbeing and safety

• ubiquitous and personalized e-Health and m-Health

• usability and interoperability of novel telemedical scenarios

• technologies for smart city applications

• technologies for smart agriculture

IOT LABORATORY • Fast prototyping

• Pilots-demonstrators

• Development of IOT architectures

• Interface definition

• Security of devices

AREAS:

• Agricultural

• Biology

• SmartCities

• Environmental protection

LABORATORY OF DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT SYSTEMS Data Center

• area of the building: 3.731 m2

• 2 rooms for servers: 2 x 812,9 m2

• basement for infrastructure (power supply racks, UPS, power generators, chilllers, pomps, fire protection system)

• roof for coolling systems (drycoolers, chillers)

LABORATORY OF DATA CENTER MANAGEMENTAND ENERGY-EFFICIENT SYSTEMS Eagle Supercomputer

• the cluster, ranking #90 on the Top500 list

• 17 racks

• liquid cooling from CoolIT Systems

• 1032 Huawei blade servers in the E9000 chassis with

- cores: 32,984

- rmax: 1,013.72 TFlop/s,

- rpeak: 1,372.13 TFlop/s

- power: 549.60 kW

- memory: 301,568 GB

Thank you for your attention!