Finland
From EGI Knowledge Base
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| NGI Full Name: | CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd. |
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| Acronym: | CSC |
| URL: | http://www.csc.fi/ |
CSC, the Finnish IT center for science, is administered by the Ministry of Education. CSC is a non-profit company providing IT support and resources for academia, research institutes and companies: modeling, computing and information services. The Funet communication links provide research workers with Finland's widest selection of scientific software and databases and Finland's most powerful supercomputers.
CSC was established in 1971 and employs today around 160 persons.
| Number of users with valid Grid Certificate: | 75 |
| Number of sites (Resource Centres): | 8 |
| Number of CPUs: | 1212 |
| Total storage (in TB): | 1 TB |
[edit] EGI Functions: Current Rating
[edit] Functions proposed in survey of late 2006
| Coordination of infrastructure operations | No Opinion |
| Testing, certification and validation service including middleware | Quite Important |
| Managed resource centers to provide initial resources for new user communities | Quite Important |
| Coordination of user and application support | Quite Important |
| Coordination of dissemination and training efforts | Quite Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts on standards bodies | Very Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents | Very Important |
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[edit] Other EGI Functions
Service for major new infrastructures (ESFRI), especially when the need is data management or cluster computing, collaboration with high end computing services (HET) and other stakeholders.
