Training events

Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services NRIS (formerly known as the The Metacenter), has an extensive education and training program to assist existing and future users of our services. The courses are aimed to give the participants an understanding of our services as well as using the resources effectively. The courses are free of charges.

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Upcoming events

2025

Additional information channels and local news:

If you want to receive further information about training events, and other announcements about IT resources and services for researchers, there are a couple of information channels you can subscribe to:

Each of the four NRIS partner sites have local activities and events that might be useful to attend.

  • users at University of Bergen and affiliated institutes: register to hpcnews@uib.no

  • users at University of Oslo and affiliated institutes: register on the hpc-users list by sending an email to sympa@usit.uio.no with subject subscribe hpc-users Firstnames Lastname.

  • users at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and affiliated institutes: register on the info list by sending an email to sympa@hpc.ntnu.no with subject subscribe info Firstnames Lastname.

  • users at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and affiliated institutes: register for the hpc-news list by sending an email to sympa@list.uit.no with subject subscribe hpc-news Firstnames Lastname.

For all the sympa lists; replace names with your own. Also, for all these, the way to unsubscribe is to send an email with the subject unsubscribe <name of list>, replace name of list with hpc-users for UiO, info for NTNU and hpc-news for UiT.

Past events

2025

Training Events from our collaborators

2024

2023

2022

2021

Sigma2 training calendar