The research in the area of new applications and technologies for Information Society is the primary goal of PIONIER program. The construction of modern research infrastructures, including broadband optical network - PIONIER, has created the conditions for better cooperation in various academic societies. This cooperation allows to participate in many research projects, co-funded not only by the {State Committee for Scientific Research} but also from the funds of the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Program of European Union.

The following projects are using or have used the resources of PIONIER network:

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

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):

prof. dr hab. inż. Kazimierz Wiatr (President)	Kraków Akademickie Centrum Komputerowe Cyfronet Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej im. Stanisława Staszica
dr inż. Maciej Stroiński (Vicepresident)	Poznań Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN - Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe
dr inż. Stanisław Starzak (Vicepresident)	Łódź Politechnika Łódzka
inż. Cezary Citko (Secretary)	Białystok Politechnika Białostocka
dr inż. Przemysław Baranowski	Zielona Góra Uniwersytet Zielonogórski
mgr inż. Wojciech Widelski	Lublin Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, LubMAN
mgr Marek Ganczarski	Opole Uniwersytet Opolski
dr inż. Krzysztof Bogusławski	Szczecin Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie
dr inż. Andrzej Kubaszek	Rzeszów Politechnika Rzeszowska
mgr Michał Czyżewicz	Radom Politechnika Radomska
mgr Andrzej Krakowiak	Puławy Instytut Uprawy Nawożenia i Gleboznawstwa Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
mgr inż. Piotr Sąsiedzki	Gliwice Politechnika Śląska
mgr inż. Marcin Kwiecień	Olsztyn Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski
dr inż. Zbigniew Sender	Kielce Politechnika Świętokrzyska
prof. zw. dr hab. inż. Henryk Krawczyk	Gdańsk Politechnika Gdańska
prof. nadzw. dr hab. inż. Robert Suszyński	Koszalin Politechnika Koszalińska
mgr inż. Piotr Jarczewski	Bydgoszcz Uniwersytet Technologiczno - Przyrodniczy
mgr inż. Jarosław Skomiał	Warszawa Uniwersytet Warszawski
mgr inż. Andrzej Skrzeczkowski	Warszawa Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
prof. dr hab. inż. Tadeusz Więckowski	Wrocław Politechnika Wrocławska
prof. dr hab. inż. Roman Wyrzykowski	Częstochowa Politechnika Częstochowska
mgr Kamil Ksiądz	Toruń Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika

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.

Members of the consortium are:

1.	Akademickie Centrum Komputerowe Cyfronet Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej im. Stanisława Staszica as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Cracow and High Performance Computing Center
2.	Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN - Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Poznań and High Performance Computing Center
3.	Instytut Uprawy Nawożenia i Gleboznawstwa Państwowy Instytut Badawczy as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Puławy
4.	Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa NASK as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Warsaw
5.	Politechnika Białostocka as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Białystok
6.	Politechnika Częstochowska as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Częstochowa
7.	Politechnika Gdańska as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Trójmiasto and High Performance Computing Center
8.	Politechnika Koszalińska as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Koszalin
9.	Politechnika Łódzka as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Łódź
10.	Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Humanistyczny as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Radom
11.	Politechnika Rzeszowska im. Ignacego Łukasiewicza as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Rzeszów
12.	Politechnika Śląska Centrum Komputerowe as a leading institution for Silesian Metropolitan Area Network
13.	Politechnika Świętokrzyska as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Kielce
14.	Politechnika Wrocławska as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Wrocław and High Performance Computing Center
15.	Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, LubMAN UMCS as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Lublin
16.	Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Toruń
17.	Uniwersytet Opolski as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Opole
18.	Uniwersytet Technologiczno - Przyrodniczy as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Bydgoszcz
19.	Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Olsztyn
20.	Uniwersytet Warszawski as a leading institution for High Performance Computing Center in Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
21.	Uniwersytet Zielonogórski as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Zielona Góra
22.	Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie as a leading institution for Metropolitan Area Network in Szczecin