PSNC

The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre (PSNC), affiliated at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is an ICT research and development institution, recognised in Europe, and a significant hub in the European scientific IT infrastructure. The staff of the PSNC, consisting of more than 300 employees, has many years of experience in such fields as design, optimisation and implementation of digital laboratories, research infrastructures and network services of the newest generation, user training, infrastructure and security management, development of systems and platforms for large-scale data processing. The PSNC is a High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) and an operator of the national scientific network PIONIER, which connects 21 Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and 5 HPC centres. Moreover, the PSNC is a national hub of the European scientific network infrastructures: GÉANT, PRACE and EUDAT.

  • The PSNC has almost 20 modern laboratories with R&D equipment in the ICT technologies and their industrial applications. The Centre also has at its disposal the FutureLab infrastructure, making it possible to work in the “living labs” model. The PSNC is also a co-founder of the ICT Cluster of Wielkopolskie Province (together with the City of Poznań, Poznań University of Technology and IT companies of Poznań). As a part of the I4MS-Growth project, the PSNC has launched the first Digital Innovation Hub in Central Europe, known as HPC4Poland. Research works implemented by the PSNC as a part of European and global research and structural programmes include many interdisciplinary areas - the PSNC has completed more than 200 such projects, including more than 50 of them in the Horizon 2020 programme.