Introduction to Educloud

Discover the infrastructure available for research computing provided by UIO

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Course description

What is Educloud Research?

Educloud Research is a project-oriented self-service Platform as a Service that gives easy and fast access to:

A work environment for research projects that have cross institution and cross border users:

  • Virtual machine with either Windows or Linux
  • Easy data collection with Nettskjema
  • Storage that is available from anywhere, from any device and shared between project users and project platforms (Windows, Linux, HPC)
  • A low threshold HPC system that offers batch job submission (SLURM) and interactive nodes, and that has access to the same storage as the Windows and Linux resources available to the project
     

Target audience

The audience is anyone with UiO affiliation.

Learning outcomes

  • The participants will obtain knowledge of UiO infrastructure.

Prerequisites 

  • No prerequisite skills are required.
  • The course will be informative of opportunities.

Required materials

  • The participants can bring laptops to test the services themselves

Lunch

  • There will be a complementary buffet-lunch at 12:00-13:00 from the Sverdrups spiseri (Georg Sverdrups Hus, 2nd floor).
  • After you get your lunch, join us at Store møterom where we have reserved seats for #DSDays2027 participants. 

Number of participants

30

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this course, or anything else about the DSDays 2027 event, please contact us per email: digitalscholarship@ub.uio.no

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Milen Kouylekov
Published Nov. 5, 2026 10:44 AM - Last modified Nov. 5, 2026 1:30 PM