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