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Overview
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User guides
What's new
- 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
Applications
- New guide for using Python effectively on CSC supercomputers, 27.6.2024
- 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
- Starting April 14 2025, SSH login to Puhti and Mahti will only work with SSH keys added in MyCSC, 25.3.2025
- 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
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
Data management
- Sensitive Data (SD) Connect: new command line tools for automated key management, 02.2025
- Pukki DBaaS now available for all users, 28.3.2024
Computing environment
- SD Desktop, upgrade Heavy Computation option, 15.01.2025
- Starting April 14 2025, SSH login to Puhti and Mahti will only work with SSH keys added in MyCSC, 25.3.2025
- New Small Partition with High-Performance NVMe Storage on Mahti, 13.2.2025
- SD Connect major upgrade, 7.10.2024
- Puhti and Mahti web interfaces updated to release 24 and 10, 30.1.2025
- 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
- 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
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
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