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FIN-CLARIAH Visit to CSC Data Center in Kajaani

Venue: CSC Data Center, Kajaani, Finland
Time: 25.-26.9.2025

CSC – IT Center for Science is inviting FIN-CLARIAH participants to visit the Data Center in Kajaani. Join the excursion, meet colleagues and see the culture-historically interesting surroundings and premises of LUMI and other supercomputers with your own eyes! We are also going to have FIN-CLARIAH project meetings on the train. Note that you can follow the presentations on Friday in Zoom, see details below.

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Schedule:

Thursday 25.9.2025

Unfortunately no online participation on Thursday.

8.19-14.35 Train IC63 from Helsinki to Kajaani (optional)

Topic for meeting on the train: What could be a ”AI killer application / use case” for FIN-CLARIAH in the future?

(Inspirational Youtube video: How AI helped to determine protein structures (22min, problem statement in the first minute)

Collaborative notes and more detailed agenda

14:35 – 15:30 Transfer to Tehdaskatu 15 Kajaani (30 min walk, weather permitting)
15:30 – 17:30
Visit to the CSC Data Center, Tehdaskatu 15 Kajaani
  • Identity checks (you will need a passport, id card or driver’s license)  and approx. 300 m walk from the Portti building to the LUMI Visitor Center
  • Presentation: LUMI and AI Factory (Katja Mankinen, Senior data scientist, CSC)
  • Presentation: Aitta (Juho Keränen, Aitta product owner, CSC)
  • Guided Tour through the Data Center
~18:00 Check-in hotel
19:00 – Dinner at Ravintola Terva (own cost) https://www.ravintolaterva.fi/a-la-carte/

Friday 26.9.2025

Meeting at Ravintola Wanha Kerho Kauppakatu 40, 87100 Kajaani

If you can’t make it to Kajaani, you can still follow presentations online in Zoom:
  • https://cscfi.zoom.us/j/61282104806
Your feedback is important for developing CSC services.
9:00 – 10:00 Presentation of ideas from the discussion in the train on Thursday
10:00 – 10:30 Roihu – AI and data management (Sebastian von Alftan, Develoment manager, CSC)
10:30 – 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 11:00 Discussion in small groups: What methods can we use to estimate whether there is online data in the RI to answer a specific research question?
11:00 – 12:00 LAIFS DaaS and discussion of needs from digital humanities (Heidi Laine, Senior specialist, CSC)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 HPC potential use cases in DH (Introduction by Eetu Mäkelä, UHEL; Johanna Lilja, NLF)  + Discussion by all participants)

End of common event

14.35-21.45 Train IC70 from Kajaani to Helsinki (optional)

”How can we benefit from an HPC inference engine in the FIN-CLARIAH research infrastructure?”

 

 

 

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