Managing service quotas

The use of CSC’s services is limited by quotas that apply to both free-of-charge and commercial users. The listed quotas are enforced per CSC project, unless otherwise stated.

Please note that quota extensions may depend on availability and may incur additional costs. Commercial users should always consult CSC Service Desk.

Disk space and large jobs 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 in Docs CSC. Processing time depends on increase amount. Commercial users: contact CSC Service Desk
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 in Docs CSC. Processing time depends on increase amount. Commercial users: contact CSC Service Desk.
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 in Docs CSC. Commercial users: contact CSC Service Desk.

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 Service Desk in order to agree with CSC about storage terms and possible costs.

Resource	Default quota	How to increase
Storage	10 TiB	Contact CSC Service Desk. Processing time depends on increase amount, see Applying for resources page.
Buckets per project	1 000	–
Objects per bucket	500 000	–

Cloud quotas in cPouta and ePouta

Resource	Default quota	How to increase
Instances	8	Contact CSC Service Desk.
Cores	8
Memory	32 GiB
Floating IPs	2
Storage	1 TiB
Shared Fileservice (ePouta)	0*	Contact CSC Service Desk. 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	Contact CSC Service Desk.
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	Contact CSC Service Desk.
Number of database instances	5
Memory usage	20 000 MB
Volume reservation	50 GiB

Disk space in Kaivos

Resource	Default quota	How to increase
Disk space	–	See instructions in Docs CSC.

Storage space in Fairdata IDA

This service is 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.