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CSC’s recommendations for the implementation of Finland’s digital compass, part 2: Focus on RDI
Digitalization must be seen above all as an enabler of research, product development, innovation and new competences. Finland's digital compass must reflect this. One of the key tools for developing competences is LUMI, a pan-European supercomputer located in Kajaani. LUMI is the third most powerful supercomputer in the world, and has been rightly identified in the key results of the digital compass.
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CSC’s recommendations for the implementation of Finland’s digital compass, part 1: Boosting data economy and the RDI ecosystem
The digital transformation is expected to be a game changer for the whole society. But do we fully understand the impact of digitalization, and what it requires at societal level?
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Better tailored care through advanced data transfer and analysis methods
Some of the most valuable insights generated by research come from the integration of complex datasets. It is therefore important to promote national computing and data storage services. This creates a strong foundation for data-intensive research in Finland.
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LUMI is officially here!
The second pilot phase of LUMI, using the system’s GPU capacity, is complete, system’s performance verified with accepted benchmarks, contract work completed and, therefore, LUMI is officially ready to serve European scientists in its full capacity!
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Digitaaliset kaksoset Tieteiden yössä
Digitaalinen kaksonen on fyysisestä tutkimuskohteesta tehty digitaalinen kopio, jossa yhdistyvät mallinnus ja havaintodata. Esittelimme Tieteiden yön verkkotapahtumassa CSC:llä kehitettävät digitaaliset kaksoset: ilmastokaksosen ja biodiversiteetin digitaaliset kaksoset.
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Global advantage through high-performance quantum computing
Quantum computers have the potential to provide a game-changing boost for science. For maximum benefit to society, quantum computers will need to merge with traditional high-performance computing. Here, international collaboration is of key importance for bringing the required expertise and know-how together.
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Building Europe’s future success through digital solutions for competence development
With digitalisation and globalisation, our lives are in constant transition, marked by the increase in competence requirements and the acceleration of the new learning cycle. This has been very well understood in Finland.
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CSC in the European EUDAT
The EUDAT membership allows CSC to offer its customers high quality data services based on EUDAT technology. EUDAT's B2 product family helps researchers manage their research data. For service providers, the EUDAT consortium enables the sharing of work between different centers.
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Finnish student team Revontuli took the third place in an international student supercomputer competition
CSC fielded Finland's first team in the international Student Cluster Competition (SCC), whose final was held in November 4-6. Team Revontuli (northern lights in Finnish) won the HPL Hero Run Challenge and finished 3rd overall among 10 university teams.
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Kohti yhteisiä oppimisalustoja
Oppimisen verkkotyökalujen käytössä on otettu vahvoja askeleita eteenpäin. Digiopetus on läsnä kaikessa opiskelussa ja oppimisen verkkotyökalujen käyttö on edistynyt myös pandemian aiheuttaman digiloikan jälkeen.
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Tailored EUDAT data services: use cases
Tailored EUDAT data services are designed to provide additional options to the common data services provided by CSC, while promoting good data management practices. In this blog, we will go through three examples of customized data services.
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The first Finnish team in the student supercomputer competition – follow the team on Twitter
CSC has put together Finland's first team for the international student supercomputer competition.
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New fields of science go computational
CSC's new supercomputers Mahti and Puhti and the data management system Allas increased the number of users of CSC services by more than 40%, services were opened up to academic use by research institutes and new fields of science found CSC's services.
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Getting started with bioscience services
Did you know, that many of CSC's services are free-of-charge for academic research, education and training in Finnish higher education institutions and in state research institutes? We offer wide variety of services, accompanied with trainings and support. Thus, there are also many ways and angles you can get familiar with our services – it all depends on your specific needs! In this blog post we aim at presenting some possible approaches to start your journey with us!
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TKI on Suomelle strateginen valinta
Tutkimus-, kehittämis- ja innovaatiotoiminta ei ole muusta yhteiskunnasta irrallaan oleva saareke. Oleellista on tunnistaa TKI-toiminnan strategisuus – toisin sanoen sen laaja vaikuttavuus koko suomalaiseen yhteiskuntaan, erityisesti nyt, kun meidän on kyettävä samanaikaisesti sekä löytämään ratkaisuja monimutkaisiin globaaleihin haasteisiin että huolehtimaan Suomen kasvusta, resilienssistä ja kilpailukyvystä.
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Delivering impact by boosting the strategic plan of Horizon Europe
Drafting of the strategic plan of Horizon Europe for the period of 2025-2027 is already starting, and together we must make sure that Horizon Europe delivers real impact, while keeping up with the environmental, geopolitical, technological, social and economic developments that have accelerated or changed course since the adoption of the current strategic plan.
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Molecular Dynamics, the most used method in CSC's environment
Molecular dynamics is one of the most used simulation techniques on CSC supercomputers. Typically, each atom is modelled separately to build molecules or materials – the physical system that the researcher is interested in – and then physics is set in motion to see what happens.
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Have you rolled the DICE?
DICE offers “something for everyone”, from individual scientist all the way up to the most demanding scientific research projects. The offering includes services ranging personal cloud storage for individuals and small teams to sophisticated services for projects, organisations and research infrastructures. The core of the service offering is the EUDAT service portfolio complemented with additional state-of-the-art services.
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How did LUMI end up in Finland?
LUMI supercomputer’s second installation phase is currently ongoing at CSC’s data center in Kajaani, Finland. Soon researchers across academia and industry will have an unforeseen tool – Europe’s fastest supercomputer. Getting the LUMI supercomputer to Finland was no forgone conclusion. Although the LUMI consortium, led by CSC, officially joined the competition to get one of the three EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputers to Kajaani in 2019, the background work began years earlier.
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At the racing track of quantum computers
In a sense, quantum computers are already much more powerful than traditional supercomputers. In the form of the ever-useful car analogy: quantum computers of today are like the fastest racing cars ever built, or even imagined. There is a caveat, however.
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