Managing Service Quotas - Services for Research
Managing Service Quotas
The use of CSC's services is limited to quotas that apply to both free-of-charge and commercial users. The listed quotas are per CSC project, unless stated otherwise.
Please note that quota expansions may depend on availability and may incur additional costs. Commercial users should always consult our service desk at servicedesk@csc.fi.
Disk space in Puhti
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Space in Home (per user) | 10 GiB | – |
| Files in Home (per user) | 100 000 | |
| Space in ProjAppl | 50 GiB |
Free-of-charge users: see instructions (processing time depends on increase amount) Commercial users: email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Files in ProjAppl | 100 000 | |
| Space in Scratch | 1 TiB | |
| Files in Scratch | 1 000 000 | |
| Nodes per job | 26 | – |
Disk space and large jobs in Mahti
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Space in Home (per user) | 10 GiB | – |
| Files in Home (per user) | 100 000 | |
| Space in ProjAppl | 50 GiB |
Free-of-charge users: see instructions (processing time depends on increase amount) Commercial users: email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Files in ProjAppl | 100 000 | |
| Space in Scratch | 1 TiB | |
| Files in Scratch | 1 000 000 | |
| Nodes per job | 20 |
Free-of-charge users: see instructions Commercial users: email servicedesk@csc.fi |
Storage space in Allas
If you are using CSC's services free-of-charge and need to store more than 200 TiB in Allas, please contact servicedesk@csc.fi in order to agree with CSC about storage terms and possible costs.
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | 10 TiB | Email servicedesk@csc.fi (processing time depends on increase amount) |
| Buckets per project | 1 000 | – |
| Objects per bucket | 500 000 | |
| Object size | 5 GiB |
Cloud quotas in cPouta and ePouta
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Instances | 8 | Email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Cores | 8 | |
| Memory | 32 GiB | |
| Floating IPs | 2 | |
| Storage | 1 TiB | |
| Shared Fileservice (ePouta) | 0* | Email servicedesk@csc.fi (please follow the deadlines for large resource applications) |
*On request only if the use case is such that multiple ePouta virtual machines need to access the Shared Fileservice during active data processing. Academic CSC projects with a need to store more than 10 TiB in Shared Fileservice need to agree with CSC about storage terms and possible costs.
Cloud quotas in Rahti
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift projects per user | 5 | Email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Pods per OpenShift project | 20 | |
| Virtual cores per pod | 2 | |
| Virtual cores per container | 2 | |
| Memory per pod | 8 GiB | |
| Memory per container | 8 GiB | |
| Storage per OpenStack project | 50 GiB | |
| Number of image streams per OpenStack project | 10 | |
| Size of image stream | 5 GiB |
Quotas in Pukki
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Number of manual backups | 1000 | Email servicedesk@csc.fi |
| Number of database instances | 5 | |
| Memory usage | 20000 MB | |
| Volume reservation | 50 GiB |
Disk space in Kaivos
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Disk space | – | See instructions |
Storage space in Fairdata IDA
This service available only for free-of-charge use cases.
| Resource | Default quota | How to increase |
|---|---|---|
| Storage for published datasets | See instructions on how to apply for service access and initial quota | See instructions on how to change the quota |