CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.

www.csc.fi

CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd is a state owned company, administered by the Ministry of Education. CSC is the largest national center supporting research and education in Northern Europe with a staff exceeding 170 (2009). CSC provides high performance computing, modelling, software development, information and data management services for academia, research institutes, public sector and industry. CSC has a wide selection of scientific software and databases and runs supercomputers. CSC is very active in data management and maintains the Finnish University and Research Network.

CSC’s major contributions are in WP3 (Dissemination and training), WP4 (End User Relations) and in WP7 (Petascale Applications). CSC has a strong communications team, which led the dissemination in the PRACE project and will handle the task in the present project. CSC runs a broad curriculum of courses for national and international participants which provides the basis for coordinating the training in the project. CSC is a deputy leader of WP4 and leads one of the tasks, which is directed to propose solutions for pan-European Tier 1 level access. CSC has an experienced HPC programming team, was a task coordinator in PRACE WP6, which was responsible for application enabling, and is also involved in other national and European HPC projects. CSC participates actively in other WP’s too.