• Computational grids,
• Digital libraries,
• Interactive TV,
• Radioastronomy,
• High energy physics,
• Network technologies and infrastructure,
• Advanced network services,
• Public Key Infrastructure,
• High Definition videoconferences.

The international cooperation is the key building block of the process of building the Information Society. The advanced research infrastructure and the appreciation for Polish researchers allow an active partnership within many international organizations.

GÉANT (previously TERENA and DANTE)

PSNC represents the Polish scientific community in the structures of the European research network GÉANT, actively collaborating in the development of new services and technologies for next generation networks (in the framework of GEANT task groups as well as projects within 5,6 and 7th Framework Programme).

PSNC as a representative of the scientific environment actively participated in Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association – TERENA, as an associate member since 1997 and since 1999 as a full member; TERENA association and the GÉANT network (managed by DANTE) merged into one institution in 2014, where the PIONIER network is still present. Cooperation with GÉANT covers a wide range of research and development in the field of next-generation networks, oriented on the development of technologies and services of the European eInfrastructure. In addition, as a part of long-term cooperation, PSNC promotes Polish IT eInfrastructure and its services for science and education on the international forum, and allows virtually unlimited access to its resources for the Polish scientific teams participating in international research projects.

Global Grid Forum

System of Computing and Networking Services, commonly called the Grid-Computing system that enables collaboration of geographically dispersed resources, networked computer, developed in PSNC in PIONIER network has contributed to the great popularity of grid technology research. In 2000, the Polish Optical Internet environment organized European Grid Forum meeting in Poznan, then co-creating the Global Grid Forum.

Currently, the Global Grid Forum as a working group dealing with grid computing technique (the forum included companies such as IBM, NASA, Avaki, Sun and Intel) concentrates its business mainly on developing new applications, writing documentation and manuals, dealing with a building standards mesh used in data processing.

RIPE

In 1997 PSNC has been registered in the {RIPE NCC} organization and since that moment has the status of Local Internet Registry. This means that PSNC has own IP address pool for address assignment and appropriate AS numbers for advertisement in the world Internet. In 2002 PSNC has acquired public IPv6 addresses, what allowed to start the network transmission with new IP protocol.

Supervisory Board consists of the representatives of the leading institutions. It is to stimulate, advise and supervise the Consortium and making all decisions concerning co-financing of the infrastructure exploitation of the PIONIER Network.

The Board members (in brackets is given their function in the Management Board):

Members of the consortium are: