1. Welcome to the 24th NORDUnet Conference Kimmo Koski Managing Director CSC, the Finnish IT Centre for Science

2. Finland 5 300 000 people (16 / square km) 1 000 000 in Helsinki metropolitan area max + 34 °C, min - 49 °C 75% forest 200 000 lakes 200 000 islands the midnight sun sauna architecture and design high technology Nokia, Linus Torvalds, Jean Sibelius, Alvar Aalto, Teemu Selänne, Jari Litmanen, Mika Häkkinen, Kimi Räikkönen…

3. CSC at a glance Founded in 1970 as a technical support unit for Univac 1108 Reorganized as a company, CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd. in 1993 All shares to the Ministry of Education of Finland in 1997 Operates on a non-profit principle Facilities in Espoo, close to Otaniemi community (of 15,000 students and 16,000 technology professionals) Staff 160 and growing Turnover 2007 16.7 million euros

4. CSCs services FUNET SERVICES COMPUTING SERVICES APPLICATION SERVICES STORAGE AND CURATION SERVICES INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES

5. Funet Network the National Research and Education Network in Finland 80 member organisations universities polytechnics public research institutes and other state-owned institutes university hospitals student dormitories more than 350 000 users

6. Funet Anniversary Year 2008 25 years of Funet research and education networking Funet was set-up as a project in December 1983 First international connections (EARN) in 1985 Linux distribution started from FTP.FUNET.FI in 1991 Funet CERT - first CERT team in Finland since 1995 Funet IPv6 enabled since 2002 Identity federation HAKA in production since 2005 Wireless roaming since 2005 20 years of Internet in Finland First connection by Funet and NORDUnet in 1988

7. Funet News in 2008 Funet network upgrade to a optical hybrid network: IP network and Lightpaths on 4000 km of dark fiber New services like Funet Antenn - a free IPTV for all Funet members and users

8. The Finnish model: Impact through centralization at CSC One center: critical mass, fast decision making, services and infrastructure close to each other FUNET network services part of the national IT center – exceptional concept internationally Wide range of services from research networks to supercomputing and data management, from scientific applications to information management etc. Strong player in international research infrastructures Influence in European strategy working groups New demand for high capacity data transfer through new experiments and increased international collaboration Aiming at a key role as one major IT center for science in the future Ecosystem for European e-infrastructure