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CSC — IT Center for Science (CSC)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
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Life Science Center Keilaniemi
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Location
Life Science Center Keilaniemi, Keilaranta 14, Keilaniemi, Espoo, PO: 02101 (Finland)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited, Virtual
Coordinating Country
Finland
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 1971
Scientific Description
CSC — IT Center for Science Ltd is administered by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. CSC is a non-profit company providing IT support and resources for academia, research institutes and companies: modeling, computing and information services. CSC provides Finland's widest selection of scientific software and databases and Finland's most powerful supercomputing environment that researchers can use via the Funet network. Part of Finnish node for ESFRI PRACE and ELIXIR.
RI Keywords
Application services, Computing services, Data services for science and culture, Funet network services, Information management services
Classifications
RI Category
Bio-informatics Facilities
Data Mining and Analysis (Methodological) Centers, including statistical analysis
Research Archives
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Repositories
Research Data Service Facilities
Data Mining and Analysis (Methodological) Centers, including statistical analysis
Research Archives
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Repositories
Research Data Service Facilities
Scientific Domain
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
ESFRI Domain
E-Infrastructure
Services
Computing Services
Pouta IaaS Cloud: a virtual IaaS computing environment, based on CSC's HPC computing infrastructure.
Data Services
Open-access publishing platform; Finnish geospatial data download service; large file sharing service.
Equipment
Bioinformatics Data Analysis Software
Chipster data analysis software: a user-friendly bioinformatics software developed by CSC. It enables life science researchers to focus on scientific questions rather than practicalities such as programming, because it provides a comprehensive selection of analysis tools in an easy to use format.
Date of last update: 31/01/2018
