CSC Infrastructure
CSC provides Finnish universities with world-class computing infrastructure. As IAMAi students, you don't simulate HPC access — you get the real thing.
LUMI
Europe's Fastest Supercomputer
Kajaani, Finland
- › AMD MI250X GPUs
- › 10,000+ nodes
- › EuroHPC JU flagship
- › ~430 PFLOP/s peak
Selected students get LUMI access for thesis and advanced projects.
Mahti
NVIDIA A100 GPU Cluster
Espoo, Finland
- › A100 80GB GPUs
- › InfiniBand HDR fabric
- › High memory nodes
- › NVMe scratch
Primary GPU cluster for deep learning training at scale.
Puhti
General-purpose HPC
Espoo, Finland
- › V100 & A100 GPUs
- › Large CPU allocation
- › Allas object storage
- › CSC Notebooks
Starting point for most students. Good for coursework and medium jobs.
CSC Services We Use
CSC Notebooks
JupyterLab in the cloud with pre-configured ML environments. Zero setup.
Allas
CSC object storage — store and share large datasets across projects.
cPouta
OpenStack cloud for deploying your own VMs and services on CSC infra.
Rahti
Container cloud based on OpenShift — run Docker workloads on CSC.
Slurm
Job scheduler for all HPC systems. Submit, monitor, and manage batch jobs.
Lmod
Environment module system. Load the exact software stack you need.
$ ssh student@puhti.csc.fi
Connected to Puhti. Welcome!
$ module load pytorch/2.4
Loading PyTorch 2.4 + CUDA 12.1...
$ sbatch --partition=gpu --gres=gpu:v100:1 train.sh
Submitted batch job 3847291
$ squeue -u $USER
JOBID PARTITION NAME ST TIME
3847291 gpu train.sh R 0:00:12
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