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Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe (PCSS, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center) is a research and development institution that builds and operates digital infrastructure for science. It provides HPC, cloud computing, scalable data management and access to the European Open Science Cloud, and it designed and maintains the PIONIER national broadband network and the POZMAN Poznań metropolitan network.

It hosts PIAST-AI, Poland's AI factory, which offers AI project analysis, data preparation, low-code AI pipelines, large-scale model training, model optimisation and AI training for enterprises and government agencies. Its customers include research institutions, the public sector and businesses, served through prototyping, specialised laboratories and knowledge transfer. The centre reports nearly 400 completed research and structural projects and cooperation with over 1,000 institutions in 60 countries.

PCSS is affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and has been active since 1993. It is based in Poznań, and its PIAST-AI factory was selected for the European Commission's AI Factories programme. Within the PIAST-Q initiative it hosts the first EuroHPC quantum computer in Poland, and it participates in projects funded under Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme.

Product: PIAST-AI Factory AI services, HPC and cloud computing, and PIONIER/POZMAN network infrastructure for science and industry.