What is CRaaS?

CRaaS - Course Resources as a Service intends to help researchers who are interested in providing courses or workshops with national e-infrastructure resources as a necessary tools. With CRaaS we make the requested CPU-hours and storage at our supercomputers available to course leaders in an easy and flexible way.

The service is under development and will be further described as soon as possible.

Target group

CRaaS - Course Resources as a Service is available to all researchers from Norwegian universities or research institutes, who want to conduct courses or workshops and consequently are in need of CPU-hours or storage from the pool of national e-infrastructure resources.

Criterias

In order to apply for e-infrastructure resources from Sigma2 for courses or workshops, the following conditions must be met:

• The applicant must provide a description of the course/workshop, including software and resource needs.
   
• The applicant must either hold a permanent position or be a postdoctoral fellow at his/her organization.
   
• Course or workshop leaders are required to acknowledge the use of the national e-infrastructure resources.
  
  A template for acknowledgements is available here 

Get access

Contact us by e-mail at sigma2@uninett.no to get started.