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IT-services provided by the University of Turku

Services

  • Horizon provides browser-based access to remote tools, including:
    • Windows 10 remote desktop
    • Office 2016
    • Personec HR
    • SAP portal
  • Datastorage
    • Seafile provides 100 Gb of cloud-based storage. Can be also accessed via mobile abplications.
    • Network folder (up to 25 Gb), accessed mostly from cable-conencted Windows machines.
    • IDA by CSC
    • TALTIO by UTU
  • Password management at idm.utu.fi
  • Wireless network services
    • Eduroam (also available at other facilities and in other countries)
    • UTU-Guest
  • VPN access to internal network - the only way to connect to Tuorla work machine remotely
    • Cisco AnyConnect
  • Software
    • Office 365
    • F-Secure
  • Private WordPress webpage
  • UTU shop handles all hardware requests (should be approved by the director)
  • GitLab available for university staff members and students
  • Cloud-based national file sharing system https://filesender.funet.fi

Contact information

  • Pasi Nurmi (handles Windows-based systems)
  • Kaj Wiik (handles *nix systems & Tuorla's own computing resources)
  • Helpdesk (general IT-related issues that cannot be resolved by Pasi or Kaj)
  • Help request webform
  • Internal phone service 6000 (available 8-16)

CSC Services in a nutshell

CompCoffee 2017

First: CSC in a nutshell

  • Founded in 1971 as a technical support unit for Univac 1108

  • CSC connected Finland to the Internet in 1988

  • Datacenter in Kajaani started in 2012

    • home of supercomputers Sisu and Taito

  • Services require a CSC account

    • available free of charge for researchers at higher education institutions in Finland

Training

  • HPC Summer school

    • ~1.5 weeks of intensive learning for students (5 ECTS):
      • intro to modern Fortran/C
      • MPI + openMP
      • hybrid programming
      • tools for analyzing and visualizing large datasets

  • Monthly trainings schedule

    • Upcoming: Quantum programming, Linux, GPU programming, Python in HPC....

Computational resources: Sisu & Taito

Sisu

  • Supercomputer with 40k cores
  • Large-scale parallel computations which require exceptionally powerful supercomputing resources
  • From several hundreds to up to thousands of cores

Taito

  • Supercluster (CPUs + GPUs)
  • General-purpose technical and scientific computing
  • Single core jobs to parallel jobs of several hundred cores

Grid computing

  • Grid computing enables applying the resources of many computers or computing clusters in a network to a single problem at the same time

  • Finnish Grid Infrastructure:

Cloud Computing with Pouta