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User guides and tutorials

Overview

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

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Getting started

CSC Accounts and Projects

Getting started with supercomputing

Puhti and Mahti Overview

Getting started with LUMI^🔗

How to get support

User guides

LUMI User Guide^🔗

Allas User Guide

Quantum Computing Guide

Machine Learning Guide

Sensitive Data Services Guide

Fairdata Services Guides^🔗

Tutorials/courses

CSC Computing Environment^🔗

Elements of Supercomputing^🔗

Linux basics for CSC

High-throughput computing

Managing data on scratch

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

• Starting April 21 2025, multi-factor authentication is required to login to web interfaces of Puhti and Mahti, 2.4.2025
• 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
• 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

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

Cloud services

• Pukki now supports MariaDB, 7.1.2025

Training & tutorials

• Pukki now supports PostgreSQL 17, 9.10.2024
• Renewed research.csc.fi website launched, 26.02.2025
• Pukki DBaaS now supports PostGIS extensions, 28.08.2024
• Visual changes for Docs CSC, 17.10.2024
• CSC Notebooks service renamed as Noppe, 21.8.2024
• New guide for working with large language models on CSC's supercomputers, 6.9.2024
• Pukki DBaaS now available for all users, 28.3.2024

Computing environment

• New guide for getting started with supercomputing at CSC, 24.7.2024
• Starting April 21 2025, multi-factor authentication is required to login to web interfaces of Puhti and Mahti, 2.4.2025
• New guide for using Python effectively on CSC supercomputers, 27.6.2024
• 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

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