CSC – IT Center for Science offers services for computational science, data storage and scientific collaboration. We provide a powerful computational environment and Finland's best IT experts to support your computational research. CSC is a non-profit, state-owned enterprise that is administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Collaboration with CSC can provide your research team with new opportunities and facilitate your research. Our experts can offer assistance in, for example: choosing suitable software and methods, processing data in CSC's powerful computational environment, and storing and archiving data. Through CSC, you can also gain access to several international research infrastructures and services.

1. Public Finnish
infrastructure for data
science

2. Service model for scientific
computing
Contract with Ministry
of Education and
Culture
Free of charge services
for computing,
consultation, data
storage, training,
cloud…
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Contract covers research and education in
higher education institutions

3. Computing resources
• Three kinds of computing environments
o Interactive Unix shell
o High-performance computing
o Cloud computing
• We provide
o Full control over your environment (cloud)
o Long running and heavy computation
o Applications such as Python, R and Matlab
o Extra large memory
o 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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4. Language resources
CSC 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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5. Cloud benefits
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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

6. 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”

8. Tell us what you think
We 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

9. 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