GEYSERS

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) is affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and is responsible for the development and management of the national research network in Poland – PIONIER. The infrastructure is based on dedicated fibres and DWDM equipment owned by PSNC. The network consists of over 5300 km of fibre cable lines interconnecting 21 MANs in Poland (19 of them with 10Gbps Ethernet channels), all Polish universities (over 100) and the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes, including over 700 research and development institutions and 5 HPC centers. PSNC also interconnects Poznan R&D institutes with POZMAN, the city-wide metropolitan area network. POZMAN consists of 220 km of optical fibres equipped with 10Gbps Ethernet technology.

Relevant expertise / know-how PSNC has been involved in a number of projects requiring both strong technical expertise and innovative approach. PSNC experience in the international collaborative projects is firmly confirmed by successful participation in over 40 FP5/FP6/FP7 projects since 2001 (e.g. 6NET, MUPBED, GN2, PHOSPHORUS, FEDERICA, GN3), where 5 of them were coordinated by PSNC (GridLab, RinGrid, Dorii, Porta Optica Study and PHOSPHORUS).

Role in the project PSNC will contribute to the GEYSERS project with a part of pan-European optical network test-bed as a background hardware platform for the WP5 activity. PSNC will also contribute to the overall architecture and interfaces definition (WP2), design and implementation of prototypes (WP3 and WP4), and finally, to the project demonstration and dissemination activities (WP5 and WP6, accordingly). PSNC coordinates WP5 “Integration, Validation and Demonstration”.

CV of key persons

Maciej Stroinski received the Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Gdańsk in 1987. Currently he is Technical Director of Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center. He is also lecturer in the Institute of Computing Science of Poznań University of Technology. His research interests concern computer network protocols and management. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers in major professional journals and conference proceedings.

Artur Binczewski received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Poznan University of Technology in 1993. His research interests concern computer networks, routing, multicasting and management. He is the Manager of the Network Division at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. He was involved in several EC projects: SEQUIN (IST-1999-20841), ATRIUM (IST-1999-20675), 6NET (IST-2001-32063) and others. His research interests concern computer networks protocols and management. He is author or co-author of papers in major professional journals and conference proceedings. He takes an active part in the development of the PIONIER fiber network. He is a member of the GEYSERS Steering Committee.

Bartosz Belter received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Poznan University of Technology in 2002. He works in Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as a Senior Network Engineer. He participated in several FP6 IST projects: 6NET (IST-2001-32063), PHOSPHORUS (IST034115) and GN2 (IST511082). He also participated in a number of national initiatives funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Clusterix, Polish LDAP and others). Currently he is involved in the national project "Engineering of Future Internet" and two FP7 projects GN3 (Project no. 238875) and GEYSERS (Project No. 248657). He is a member of the TERENA Networking Conference 2010 Programme Committee. His main research activities concern the architectural aspects of Control and Management Planes in optical networks and Quality of Service in next generation packet networks. He is currently acting as Work Package leader 5 of the GEYSERS project.

Wojbor Bogacki received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence from the Wroclaw University of Technology in 2001. He works in Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Network Research and Development Department as a Network Systems Analyst. He participated in EC and Polish networking projects. His main interests concern networking and software technologies. Task Leader T5.3 (Prototypes validation)

Milosz Przywecki received the M. Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Poznan University of Technology in 2003 and joined the Network Division of Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as a Networking Systems Analyst in 2005. His main interests are in advanced networking technologies, network protocols and services. Task Leader T5.4 (Demonstrations)