To use SANE for your research you will need to have a valid budget for the SURF Research Cloud service and be invited to a SANE project. We will assume that you have contacted the data provider regarding the use of the sensitive dataset you wish to analyse in SANE. You will need to provide the contact details of a contact person from the data provider in this procedure.

I have no valid budget and wish to request a SANE project

If you do not already have a budget for SURF Research Cloud (either through a Small Compute applications grant or an institutional contract), you need to first apply for this. You can apply for a Small Compute application in our servicedesk, or you can request credits via your institute (also via our servicedesk). Please make sure that you fill out the request form with at least the information as specified in the Ticket Template below.

Ticket Template

  • Summary: <summary of project>
  • Service/System: Research Cloud
  • Type of support: Request
  • Description

    Dear Servicedesk,

    In the context of SANE on SURF Research Cloud I wish to request the following collaboration:

    Name: <Short project name>

    Description
    <Provide a concise but accurate description of the research that will be done in this project and which type of data will be processed>

    Estimated data size: <An estimate in GB on how large the total dataset and any generated results will be (e.g 200 GB)>

    Data provider contact person: <Full name & e-mail address> (Only one person can be listed here; additional data providers may be added later by this contact person.)
    SANE variant: <Tinker or Blind>

    Kind regards,
    <Your name>

I have a valid budget and wish to request a SANE project

If you already have a valid budget on SURF Research Cloud, either through an NWO grant or a contract, you can simply request the project without applying for credits. This request can be made through our servicedesk. Create a Ticket with fields filled out as shown in the Ticket template above. If you wish to request a SANE project via a contract, please provide the following to fields in addition to the Ticket template:

  • Contract name: <e.g. OFFERTE_XXXXXX>
  • Number of credits: <e.g. 5000 credits>

Our servicedesk will subtract the specified number of credits from the contract and make them available for the SANE project that is being requested.

Currently, only projects (SRAM Collaborations) that are created under the SURF Research Cloud organisation in SRAM are supported. A Collaboration created from any other institute will not work.

What happens after I requested a SANE project?

Typically, within two working days, the data provider contact person will receive an invitation to the SANE Collaboration. The data provider will invite the researcher to the Collaboration (for a full step-by-step walkthrough for a data provider see the Data provider instructions).

Once the data provider has set up the SANE project, the researcher can follow the instructions to be found at Researcher instructions (Blind or Tinker).


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