- What is CRaaS?
CRaaS - What is CaaS?
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
CRaaS is unfortunately not available on the serviceplatform (NIRD Toolkit) as of today.
- 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 software with the metacenterIn 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 with information about what software and versions you intend to run in the course/workshop.
Make sure to inform the metacenter that you're going to use CRaaS.
Submit the course detailsOnce you have received a confirmation from the metacenter that your software stack can be used, we need to collect the details about your course.
This form must be submitted 15 days before the event start.Receive confirmation from Sigma2After submitting the form with details, Sigma2 will review and confirm that we can offer the requested resources for your course/workshop, if possible.
Without such a confirmation we can't guarantee that we're able to provide resources for you.
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 project via metacenter.no by following these instructions.
Report resultsWe'll provide a form or a document to report the results from using our services for your course.
CRaaS - What is CaaS?
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
CRaaS is unfortunately not available on the serviceplatform (NIRD Toolkit) as of today.
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
Verify your software with the metacenter
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 with information about what software and versions you intend to run in the course/workshop.
Make sure to inform the metacenter that you're going to use CRaaS.
Submit the course details
Once you have received a confirmation from the metacenter that your software stack can be used, we need to collect the details about your course.
This form must be submitted 15 days before the event start.
Receive confirmation from Sigma2
After submitting the form with details, Sigma2 will review and confirm that we can offer the requested resources for your course/workshop, if possible.
Without such a confirmation we can't guarantee that we're able to provide resources for you.
Provide user details
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 project via metacenter.no by following these instructions.
Report results
We'll provide a form or a document to report the results from using our services for your course.