University of Warsaw, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling

ICM, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, Warsaw University, is the leading scientific high-end computing centre in Poland. Beyond serving the whole academic community within the country by offering multi-level services and advanced infrastructure, ICM has developed high-rank competence in new concepts of distributed data processing and large-scale computing within grid technology paradigms.

The centre has experience in the provision of large-scale Internet information and data services since 1994. The early experiences include setting up and maintaining one of the largest software repositories in Europe (SunSITE in 1995); creating the first and most popular Polish search engine in partnership with Infoseek Corp. (in 1996); and co-developing the currently most popular Polish search engine (Netsprint). ICM has also had extensive experience in Internet content replication techniques, being a founder and co-organizing a series of yearly International Web Caching and Content Replication conferences, playing an active role in TERENA's caching and indexing task forces, and establishing a countrywide caching hierarchy in Poland in 1998. Since 1995, ICM is running a multi-terabyte national scientific virtual library programme (with over 10,000 full-text articles being downloaded daily) serving hundreds of scientific and research institutions in Poland. The country-wide Internet library catalogue and IT platform are being developed as a sub-project, as well as a number of comprehensive databases of Polish academic and research journals. ICM coordinates countrywide licensing programs for access to bibliographical databases and for remote software licenses. Different databases and content repositories are being gradually integrated with the use of custom developed high-performance resource indexing broker system. ICM has unique experience in the development of heuristic text similarities analyzing algorithms, to be used in a national anti-plagiarism system developed within a separate project. Initiated in 2004, a joint project with National Archives of Poland has been progressed, in order to create a National Archive for Electronic Documentation. One of the results of the project is a de facto metadata standard for public administration in Poland.

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