00_account_and_project.md

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CSC Accounts and Projects {.title}

This topic explains what CSC accounts and projects are and how to manage them.


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CSC account

• A CSC account identifies you as a CSC user

• With the account, you can join projects and access resources

• Check out the tutorial and the documentation

• The password of your CSC user account is valid for one year at a time

  • You will recieve a notification when it is about to expire

• Never share your account or send the password to anyone

CSC project

• CSC projects are used for managing access to CSC services and resources

• Each project has its own disk quotas and billing unit quotas

• Every project has a project manager and members

  • Prerequisites and responsibilities of a project manager

• Every CSC user also has a personal project which is only for technical purposes

  • The personal project is not meant for submitting jobs

  • All usage (e.g. batch jobs) needs to be done with CSC projects (a.k.a. computing projects)

  • FAQ on how to find info about your projects

Different project types

• Academic project

  • Can be created only by members of Finnish higher education institutions and state research institutes (valid for one year, can be extended)

• Course project

  • Designed for delivering a course once (fixed resources, valid for max. 6 months, cannot be extended)

• Student project

  • Designed to support students' course and thesis work (fixed resources, valid for max. 6 months, cannot be extended)

Note: A separate LUMI project is required to access LUMI. Commercial projects are only available via [email protected]

Project lifetime and management

• The manager invites members to the project

• The project lifetime has to be extended yearly if the project still continues

• After the project is closed, the data will be cleaned

  • Members will be alerted by emails (see Section 6.3. of General Terms of Use)

• If your project processes personal data or sensitive data, see personal data announcement

  • More information in CSC's data policy

Billing Units

• Using most CSC services consumes Billing Units (BU). There are four different BU types:

  • CPU & GPU Billing Units, Storage Billing Units and Cloud Billing Units

• BUs are tied to CSC projects (not personal) and can be applied via MyCSC

  • Academic usage is free of charge

    • Read more about free-of-charge use cases

    • Read more about our services for commercial use

  • All members of a project can apply for billing units

  • Remember to acknowledge CSC in your publications and mention these in your BU application

• You can estimate usage with the billing unit calculator