Docs CSC

User guides and tutorials

Docs CSC contains user guides, FAQs and tutorials related to CSC services.

In order to navigate across the CSC user guide, click on the topics on the left hand side of the navigation bar, or use the search functionality.

• Getting started

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  CSC Accounts and Projects
  Getting started with supercomputing
  Puhti and Mahti Overview
  Getting started with LUMI
  How to get support

• User guides

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  Quantum Computing Guide
  LUMI User Guide
  Allas User Guide
  Machine Learning Guide
  Sensitive Data Services Guide
  Fairdata Services Guides

• Tutorials/courses

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  CSC Computing Environment
  Elements of Supercomputing
  Linux basics for CSC
  Managing data on scratch
  High-throughput computing

What's new

Applications

• Tykky 0.4.2, 27.2.2025
• R 4.4.2 in r-env, 25.2.2025
• JAX 0.4.38 available on Puhti, Mahti and LUMI, 0.5.0 available on Puhti and Mahti, 19.02.2025
• Snakemake and Nextflow tutorials significantly improved
• Schrödinger Maestro 2025.1, 6.2.2025

Cloud services

• Pukki now supports MariaDB, 7.1.2025
• Pukki now supports PostgreSQL 17, 9.10.2024
• Pukki DBaaS now supports PostGIS extensions, 28.08.2024
• CSC Notebooks service renamed as Noppe, 21.8.2024
• Pukki DBaaS now available for all users, 28.3.2024

Computing environment

• New Small Partition with High-Performance NVMe Storage on Mahti, 13.2.2025
• Puhti and Mahti web interfaces updated to release 24 and 10, 30.1.2025
• Puhti and Mahti web interfaces updated to release 23 and 9, 23.10.2024
• Puhti and Mahti web interfaces updated to release 22 and 8, 28.8.2024
• Puhti and Mahti web interfaces updated to release 21 and 7, 13.6.2024

Data management

• Sensitive Data (SD) Connect: new command line tools for automated key management, 02.2025
• SD Desktop, upgrade Heavy Computation option, 15.01.2025
• SD Connect major upgrade, 7.10.2024
• SD Desktop: CentOS 7 will no longer be supported after June 2024
• SD Desktop copy-paste functionality via Clipboard is now available, 7.3.2024

Training & tutorials

• Renewed research.csc.fi website launched, 26.02.2025
• Visual changes for Docs CSC, 17.10.2024
• New guide for working with large language models on CSC's supercomputers, 6.9.2024
• New guide for getting started with supercomputing at CSC, 24.7.2024
• New guide for using Python effectively on CSC supercomputers, 27.6.2024