CRaaS - Course Resources as a Service
- What is CRaaS?
CRaaS - What is CRaaS?
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 tool. With CRaaS, we make the requested CPU-hours and storage at our supercomputers available to course leaders in an easy and flexible way.
CRaaS is only available on HPC at the moment. Hence, requests to use CRaaS on the service platform (NIRD Toolkit) will not be processed. - Target group
CaaS - Target group
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.
- Conditions for access
CRaaS - Conditions for access
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.
- Get started
CRaaS - Get started
Verify your softwareIn order to ensure that your software can be used on our infrastructure, the first step is to contact the software team at support@metacenter.no.
Please provide information about what software and versions you intend to run in the course/workshop.
Make sure to inform the Metacenter that you intend to use CRaaS.
Submit the course detailsOnce you have received a confirmation from the Metacenter that your software stack can be used, you must provide details about your course.
This form must be submitted atleast 15 days before the event starts.Receive confirmation from Sigma2After submitting the application form with details, Sigma2 will review it and confirm if we are able to offer the requested resources for your course/workshop.
Without such a confirmation we cannot guarantee that we are able to provide you with resources.
Provide user detailsThis step depends on your type, size and length of your activity.
Sigma2 may provide you with a spreadsheet to fill out in step 3.
Otherwise, ask the users to submit user applications to your allocated project via metacenter.no by following these instructions.
Report resultsSigma2 will provide a form or a document to report the results from using our services for your course.
CRaaS - What is CRaaS?
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 tool. With CRaaS, we make the requested CPU-hours and storage at our supercomputers available to course leaders in an easy and flexible way.
CRaaS is only available on HPC at the moment. Hence, requests to use CRaaS on the service platform (NIRD Toolkit) will not be processed.
CaaS - Target group
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.
CRaaS - Conditions for access
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.
CRaaS - Get started
In order to ensure that your software can be used on our infrastructure, the first step is to contact the software team at support@metacenter.no.
Please provide information about what software and versions you intend to run in the course/workshop.
Make sure to inform the Metacenter that you intend to use CRaaS.
Once you have received a confirmation from the Metacenter that your software stack can be used, you must provide details about your course.
This form must be submitted atleast 15 days before the event starts.
After submitting the application form with details, Sigma2 will review it and confirm if we are able to offer the requested resources for your course/workshop.
Without such a confirmation we cannot guarantee that we are able to provide you with resources.
This step depends on your type, size and length of your activity.
Sigma2 may provide you with a spreadsheet to fill out in step 3.
Otherwise, ask the users to submit user applications to your allocated project via metacenter.no by following these instructions.
Sigma2 will provide a form or a document to report the results from using our services for your course.