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Summer School brings together learners interested in high-performance computing

CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing was organized for the 13th time in Nuuksio in summer 2023. The number of participants broke all records. The course attracted more than 30 students from all corners of Europe with different educational backgrounds and starting points.

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Funet's anniversary: 40 years of action and 35 years in Internet

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) and the 35th anniversary of Finland's connection to the global internet. Funet can be proud of its many achievements, not least the connection of Finland to the internet.

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Researchers discovered information from under the Sun’s surface about the emergence of solar storms using the LUMI supercomputer

Professor Maarit Korpi-Lagg from Aalto University leads a nine-person multidisciplinary research group. The group numerically verified the existence of a fluctuating dynamo in sun-like conditions during a LUMI pilot project.

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Real-time bird monitoring for the benefit of science

Bird populations are known to be showing rapid responses to environmental change. For example, due to climate change, migratory events have been shifting to an earlier time in conjunction with warmer spring temperatures. This has consequences to bird population dynamics and functioning, which are being examined with a new mobile application Muuttolintujen kevät (Spring of Migratory Birds) that engages citizens to participate in collecting data.

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Kajaani Data Center: Improving eco-efficiency

Data center industry can help achieving the goals of carbon neutrality by reducing their carbon footprint and increasing their carbon handprint. Using carbon neutral energy and reusing the waste heat from data centers will reduce the footprint. 

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Research group created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer

Currently, one of the hottest topics in the field of technology is text-generating AI. A group of researchers from TurkuNLP, University of Turku, created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer.

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The summer school is built on learning high performance computing and doing things together

CSC's Summer School in High-Performance Computing will be held again in the summer of 2023. The previous summer school delved into the world of high performance computing and involved a wide range of programming exercises. The leisure activities are also an integral part of the experience.

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Towards safer navigation and fully automated vessels with AI technologies

Groke Technologies is a Finnish company that focuses on developing intelligent methods for autonomous navigation to improve safety at sea. High-performance computing (HPC) plays a vital role in optimizing machine-learning models for computer vision.

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How blinking affects the tear film lipid layer in the eye

Dry eye syndrome is a painful condition affecting millions of people throughout the world and is caused by the evaporation of tear fluid from the eye surface. What causes this evaporation is the focus of a PRACE project led by Professor Ilpo Vattulainen and a team at the University of Helsinki.

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New understanding of both large and small-scale solar dynamos

Increasingly high-resolution and theoretically advanced simulations are providing a greater understanding of the sun by enabling the simultaneous capture of the two main constituents of the solar dynamo – the small and large-scale solar dynamos.

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HPC-Europa3 project enabling cooperation and program development for glaciological community

During the recent years the Horizon 2020 project HPC-Europa3 has been one of the main pillars in a continuous cooperation between the Elmer development team at CSC and groups all over Europe. And this even through the stormy waters of a global pandemic. 

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Language technology is essential for the survival of small languages – researchers using supercomputers to develop Finnish language models

Assistant Professors Sampo Pyysalo and Filip Ginter from the University of Turku’s Department of Information Technology, Finland are part of the TurkuNLP (Natural Language Processing) research group, which will be among the first research groups to test out the GPU partition of the LUMI supercomputer.

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CSC for sustainable development

When it comes to sustainability, CSC has four main themes: CSC's climate actions, prospering customers, ethical business, and empowered employees. With them in mind, we strive for our part to guide global development in the direction of maintaining the carrying capacity of nature while prosperity and economic activity increase.

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Over 300 researchers engaged in the EOSC co-design activities: the EOSC Future User Group

The EOSC Future User Group consists of 300 enthusiastic researchers and active players in research or in research support from over 30 European Union Member States and Associated Countries.

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PRACE Autumn School familiarised international students and postdoctoral researchers with modern GPU-accelerated supercomputers

The PRACE Autumn School 2021 brought together undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers in different disciplines. One of the highlights of the school was the visit to CSC’s data center in Kajaani, the home of one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world: LUMI. It was a unique opportunity for the participants to familiarise themselves with the cutting-edge data infrastructure in the field of HPC.

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Destination Earth and digital twins – a European opportunity for HPC

Heatwaves, deadly floods, and wildfires are some examples of extreme weather climate change is affecting. Imagine an information system that would help our societies deal with natural hazards, protect our societies from extreme weather and adapt to climate change. Destination Earth is an answer to this need.

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On nuclear waste disposal, computationally

CSC and Posiva Ltd have collaborated to study the permafrost-evolution scenario in the future in Olkiluoto area, where the world's first nuclear waste disposal site is currently being mined. CSC offered to Posiva Puhti supercomputer’s computation capacity and Elmer software and gave consulting services to CoSci LLC, a US-based company working for Posiva.

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ELIXIR: providing a sustainable infrastructure for life science data for all life science projects at European scale

ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life science data, has worked to bring Europe’s national centers and core bioinformatics resources into a single, coordinated infrastructure. The ELIXIR Node in Finland is hosted at CSC - IT Center for Science.

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Kasvava Avointen oppimateriaalien kirjasto

Erilaiset digitaaliset opetusvälineet ja -materiaalit ovat olleet opetuksen ja oppimisen arkea jo pitkään. Viimeistään vuoden 2020 maaliskuu osoitti, miten tärkeässä osassa esimerkiksi digitaaliset oppimateriaalit opetuksessa ovat.

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Gold nanoclusters for cancer nanomedicine

Gold nanoclusters can deliver drugs precisely to cancer cells without damaging healthy tissues. Using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at the University of Jyväskylä Nanoscience Centre showed that the ratio of cancer-sensing and drug molecules is a critical parameter in optimizing the properties of gold clusters to maximize the probability of cluster adhesion to the surface of cancer cells.

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