Public Finnish infrastructure for data science
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Service model for scientific computing
Contract with Ministry of Education and
Culture
Free of charge services for computing,
consultation, data storage, training,
cloud… Contract covers research and education in
higher education institutions
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Computing resources• Three kinds of computing environments
o Interactive Unix shello High-performance computingo Cloud computing
• We provideo Full control over your environment (cloud)o Long running and heavy computationo Applications such as Python, R and Matlabo Extra large memoryo Large data storage
• Close link to Open Science and Research Services (Avoin tiede ja tutkimus) for e.g. data storage and publishing
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Language resourcesCSC runs services for Kielipankki (The Language Bank of Finland, FIN-CLARIN)• Text corpora (korp.csc.fi)
o Examples: Suomi24, The Newspaper and Periodical Corpus of the National Library of Finland
• Speech corpora (lat.csc.fi)o Examples: The Longitudinal Corpus of Finnish Spoken in Helsinki,
Samples of Spoken Finnish
• Raw access to corpus materials
• Metadata search (metashare.csc.fi)
• Registration of URNs
• Access to restricted resources by electronic application
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Cloud benefits
Flexibility and freedom to use any applications
Support for sensitive data: ePouta cloud
Support for tools with graphical and web interfaces
Technical control: root access and control over firewall
Windows support
User support and training• We offer Service Desk, guides and training courses• Support for using computing environment and
help on using data science methods• Over 50 training events per year, such as:
Introduction to data science for researchers, Python in high-performance computing, Introduction to R programming, CSC Pouta cloud course, Speeding up MATLAB computations using CSC clusters…
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CSC Training and Events: www.csc.fi/training
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What is CSC? • Non-profit, state-owned
company administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture
• Started in 1971 as an operator of Univac system within State computer center (VTKK)
• CSC employs 280 specialists
Letters CSC are derived
from the former name "Centre for Scientific
Computing”
Tell us what you thinkWe are building up our service offering
for data driven science
Feedback and development ideas are very much appreciated!
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To get started, go to research.csc.fi
More about us:www.csc.fi
research.csc.fi
@CSCfi
www.linkedin.com/company/csc---it-center-for-science
www.facebook.com/CSCfi
www.youtube.com/c/CSCfi