Aalto Scientific Computing
Aalto Scientific Computing
Computing infrastructure, trainings, and hands-on support on anything related to research software and data
Welcome to the aalto.fi page for Aalto Scientific Computing!
The main webpages for Aalto Scientific Computing are at the dedicated address https://scicomp.aalto.fi.
There you will find a very useful "Welcome, researchers!" and "Welcome, students!" pages, to get started quickly with data science at Aalto.
You will also find detailed instructions on how to use Triton, the local High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, with more than 18000+ CPUs, 250+ high performance GPUs, and many petabytes of storage, for free for all Aalto University researchers.
You will also find some of the opentraining materials we have developed, and how to get help with anything related to data and computing.
We offer a daily 1-hour zoom "garage" support session, come with any research related issue and we try to help you or direct you to the right person at Aalto. For more dedicated support with coding issues, bugs, software development, methods, we have a dedicated "Aalto Research Software Engineers" serviceavailable for anyone for free at Aalto: we can code for you, code with you, or just supervise and help when needed.
The purpose of this page at Aalto.fi is to collect all relevant materials available here that are related to Aalto Scientific Computing, Science-IT, and point our researchers to useful links about data management, open science, security.
Why does Aalto Scientific Computing have a different website?
Because our documentation and useful tips are so huge that manually typing it as aalto.fi pages would be very inefficient. Instead we use git version control and Sphinx template system.
History
Computational research is one of the focus areas in Aalto University, and Aalto Scientific Computing makes that possible.
The Science-IT project was founded in 2009 (with roots going back much further) and has since expanded from high-performance computing services to a complete package: we provide computation, data management, software, and training. Our partnerships with departments and central IT services allow a streamlined experience from personal devices to the largest clusters.
To reflect our expanded services, we have rebranded to Aalto Scientific Computing to reflect our greater mission and partners.
Many Centres of Excellence and departments at Aalto University are using our resources with great success. There are currently over 1000 user accounts from all six different schools and at least 14 different departments using our resources. Science-IT is administered from the School of Science with additional university-level funding - our HPC services are available to all Aalto University, free of charge.