Meteo.pl, the well-known and popular web service providing numerical forecasts to the general public in Poland, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in 1997 to today’s reach of nearly 2 million unique visitors each month (which amounts to 5 percent of the Polish population) both the team and the service […]
Five IT students who formed the Warsaw Team under the supervision of Dr. Maciej Cytowski (ICM) have been honoured by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education with a grant for the most excellent student teams. Its aim is to support highly talented students in developing their scientific activity by enabling them to participate in […]
ICM again will grant researchers access to the Okeanos supercomputer – a Cray XC40 large-scale computing system. We invite researchers to submit their applications. Access to the Okeanos supercomputer will primarily be granted to scientists whose research requires the use of massively parallel computations. Three types of grants will be awarded, the details of which are […]
Dr. Marek Michalewicz is ICM’s new Deputy Director responsible for computational infrastructure. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer heading Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Computational Resource Centre in Singapore. We asked Dr. Michalewicz about the biggest challenges of the Big Data era. “Very soon we will be trying to tackle problems that […]