CSC account

• A CSC account identifies you as a CSC user
• With the account, you can join projects and access resources
• Check out the tutorial and the documentation
• The password of your CSC user account is valid for one year at a time
  • You will recieve a notification when it is about to expire
• Never share your account or send the password to anyone

CSC project

• CSC projects are used for managing access to CSC services and resources
• Each project has its own disk quotas and billing unit quotas
• Every project has a project manager and members
  • Prerequisites and responsibilities of a project manager
• Every CSC user also has a personal project which is only for technical purposes
  • The personal project is not meant for submitting jobs
  • All usage (e.g. batch jobs) needs to be done with CSC projects (a.k.a. computing projects)
  • FAQ on how to find info about your projects

Different project types

• Academic project
  • Can be created only by members of Finnish higher education institutions and state research institutes (valid for one year, can be extended)
• Course project
  • Designed for delivering a course once (fixed resources, valid for max. 6 months, cannot be extended)
• Student project
  • Designed to support students’ course and thesis work (fixed resources, valid for max. 6 months, cannot be extended)

Note: A separate LUMI project is required to access LUMI. Commercial projects are only available via servicedesk@csc.fi

Project lifetime and management

• The manager invites members to the project
• The project lifetime has to be extended yearly if the project still continues
• After the project is closed, the data will be cleaned
  • Members will be alerted by emails (see Section 6.3. of General Terms of Use)
• If your project processes personal data or sensitive data, see personal data announcement
  • More information in CSC’s data policy

Billing Units

• Using most CSC services consumes Billing Units (BU). There are four different BU types:
  • CPU & GPU Billing Units, Storage Billing Units and Cloud Billing Units
• BUs are tied to CSC projects (not personal) and can be applied via MyCSC
  • Academic usage is free of charge
    • Read more about free-of-charge use cases
    • Read more about our services for commercial use
  • All members of a project can apply for billing units
  • Remember to acknowledge CSC in your publications and mention these in your BU application
• You can estimate usage with the billing unit calculator