Welcome from CSC Kimmo Koski 7 5 2015

Welcome from CSC Kimmo Koski 7. 5. 2015 1

Welcome to Finland! Spring is now here! You can already see deer walking in the fields…

CSC at a Glance • Founded in 1971 as a technical support unit for Univac 1108 • Connected Finland to the Internet in 1988 • Reorganized as a company, CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd. in 1993 • All shares to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland in 1997 • Operates on a non-profit principle • Facilities in Espoo, close to Otaniemi campus (of 15, 000 students and 16, 000 technology professionals) and Kajaani • Staff over 270 • Volume in 2014 about 35 MEUR (without investments)

CSC on the Finnish Research Infrastructure Roadmap (FIRI) • Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) • Finnish Information Infrastructure Services (TTA and KDK-PAS) o Ministry of Education service coordinated and operated by CSC • CSC RI – a Finnish e-infrastructure o Supercomputer, HPC cluster and Cloud o Kajaani Data center o FUNET national research network • ELIXIR – European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information • Finnish participation in Ne. IC, the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (membership in international RI) 03/02/15 5

RI coordinated by CSC RI with CSC as partner 6

EC and FIRI projects euclid

EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) • EUDAT is building the European Collaborative Data Infrastructure • EUDAT 2020 is a Horizon 2020 project with 33 European partners from 15 countries o CSC is the project coordinator • EUDAT has developed five data services for researchers, providing full life cycle data management services o B 2 DROP is a secure and trusted data exchange service for researchers and scientists to keep their research data synchronized and up-to-date o BSHARE is a user-friendly, reliable and trustworthy way for storing and sharing small-scale research data o B 2 SAFE allows community and departmental repositories to implement data management policies on their research data across multiple administrative domains in a trustworthy manner. o B 2 STAGE is a reliable, efficient, light-weight and easy-to-use service to transfer research data sets between EUDAT storage resources and high-performance computing (HPC) workspaces o B 2 FIND is a simple, user-friendly metadata catalogue of research data collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other repositories • www. eudat. eu 8

Datacenter CSC Kajaani – state-of-the-art technology and world-class eco-efficiency • The world's most eco-efficient datacenter • 3 000 m 2 (4 000 m 2 option) Modular, easy to expand • Cutting-edge processor technology and free air cooling all year round Datacenter CSC Kajaani is located in the Renforsin Ranta Business Park.

PUE Annual cumulative PUE in CSC DCs 2, 00 1, 80 1, 60 1, 40 1, 20 1, 00 0, 80 0, 60 0, 40 0, 20 0, 00 1, 80 1, 78 1, 39 0, 00% 2010 9. 9. 2021 20% 18% 1, 58 1, 57 16% 1, 42 1, 39 1, 36 1, 28 14% 1, 05 12% 10% 8, 01%8% 6% 4, 97% 4% 2% 0, 03% 0% 2011 2012 2013 PUE-arvon muutos-% Why are we in Kajaani? Reliability Energy-efficiency Renewable energy Lower cost Good connections PUE Keilaranta 2 K PUE Keilaranta Pohja PUE Kajaani HPC PUE Kajaani MDC Muutos-% 10

CSC: One-stop shopping for ICT services and e-infrastructure

Nordic collaboration opportunities

What can we do together? • Joint work in supporting Research Infrastructures • Collaboration in running the e-infrastructures • Influencing European decision making in building the infras (networked models instead of monolithic systems) • Joint education and training in computational science, e-science, data analysis, other multidisciplinary competencies • Software development collaboration in developing scientific applications and parallelizing code to existing and new architectures • We could do much more than we do today – but remember not to make duplicates, but rather complementary solutions