Applying for resources
Those who do not need to pay for their usage, can apply for resources. See the principles of allocating resources for information on how resources are granted to academic projects.
The upcoming deadlines for resource applications:
Monday, November 22nd, 2021, at 10 am
Monday, December 13th, 2021, at 10 am
Monday, January 10th, 2022, at 10 am
Billing units
You can apply for more billing units for your project by filling out an application form in MyCSC.
The need of billing units should be estimated for a period of 3–6 months. The maximum grant is 10 million billing units. You may use the granted resources in all services that consume billing units.
Other resources
Besides billing units, you can apply for system quotas. Below you will find information on how to adjust them.
The quotas are per project if not stated otherwise.
Disk space in Puhti
Disk space and large jobs in Mahti
Storage space in Allas
| Resource | Default quota | Deadline | How to apply? |
| Storage | 10 TiB | no | email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Buckets per project | 1 000 | – | not changeable |
| Objects per bucket | 500 000 | – | not changeable |
| Object size | 5 GiB | – | not changeable |
Cloud quotas in cPouta and ePouta
| Resource | Default quota | Deadline | How to apply? |
| Instances | 8 | no | email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Cores | 8 | no |
| Memory | 32 GiB | no |
| Floating IPs | 2 | no |
| Storage | 1 TiB | no |
Cloud quotas in Rahti
| Resource | Default quota | Deadline | How to apply? |
| OpenShift projects per user | 5 | no | email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Pods per OpenShift project | 20 | no |
| Virtual cores per pod | 2 | no |
| Virtual cores per container | 2 | no |
| Memory per pod | 8 GiB | no |
| Memory per container | 8 GiB | no |
| Storage per OpenStack project | 50 GiB | no |
| Number of image streams per OpenStack project | 10 | no |
| Size of image stream | 5 GiB | no |
Disk space in Kaivos
Storage space in IDA
