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Services for research is a site from CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd that brings together its research computing and data management offerings. It covers high-performance computing, research data management, cloud services, sensitive data services, and services for science, education, and commercial use, along with a service catalog, resource allocation, service breaks, training, terms and policies, and purchasing information.

The site organizes services into categories including HPC, research data management, cloud, and sensitive data, with named services such as Allas, cPouta, ePouta, Puhti, Mahti, Pukki, Rahti, Roihu, SD Connect, SD Desktop, LUMI, Chipster, Noppe, and EUDAT services (B2SHARE, B2DROP, B2SAFE). It also provides use cases, blogs, a training calendar, and a security section covering protection levels and privacy statements. Services are available for free-of-charge use under a stated policy, and can be purchased when those terms are not met; commercial use is billed primarily through Billing Units via a computing base package with additional resources available per project, while LUMI, Chipster, EUDAT services, and Noppe are billed separately.

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