CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. (also known as Finnish IT center for science) provides IT support and modeling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes and companies in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It is owned by the Finnish state and Finnish higher education institutions, administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and operated on a non-profit principle. CSC has provided computational and network services since 1971. The CSC servers create a common user environment. The service environment is made up of several

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

database server A database server is a server which uses a database application that provides database services to other computer programs or to computers, as defined by the client–server model. Database management systems (DBMSs) frequently provide database-s ...

s and information servers that are all linked together with a fast data transfer connection into one metacomputer. Extensive data and archive servers are available for saving results. CSC also manages the

FUNET FUNET is the Finnish University and Research Network, a backbone network providing Internet connections for Finnish universities and polytechnics as well as other research facilities. It is governed by the state-owned CSC – IT Center for Sc ...

network, which is the Finnish

national research and education network A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country. It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backb ...

that provides fast internet access to universities and other academic institutions as well as some governmental agencies.

External links

CSC's homepage
Information technology organisations based in Finland Government-owned companies of Finland {{Finland-company-stub