2i2c
A corporation with a mission to support people engaged in interactive computing.
International Interactive Computing Collaboration
James Colliander
National Scale Interactive Computing
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Thought Experiment
Should any entity own email?
- FedEx?
- 🇺🇸 US Postal Service?
- Google?
Who should own interactive computing?
Problem
Data Science
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Digital Humanities
Precision Agriculture
Computational Neuroscience
…
Demand for interactive computing is exploding
Problem: who will supply interactive computing?
Risks
- Unfair access to essential toolchain
- Vendor lock-in
- Lost control of workflows:
- education
- collaboration
- research
- Analogy to avoid: scholarly publishing
- Paper PDF Interactive Computing
- The Cost of Knowledge
Vision
2i2c
A corporation with a mission to support people engaged in interactive computing.
International Interactive Computing Collaboration
2i2c Vision Principles
- Align with research/education/service mission
- Share best practices and code
- Collaborate instead of compete
- Protect open collaboration toolchain
Value Propositions
- Ubiquitous interactive computing
- Perfect Service Level Agreement
- No vendor lock-in
Scenarios
Scenarios for:
- Higher education
- Teams
- Publishing
Scenario 1: Higher education
- Ubiquitous interactive computing
- LMS, SSO, data integrations
- Last mile for computing in courses
- Train the trainers strategies
Example: Syzygy
Syzygy Demo
Example: UC Berkeley
Lessons Learned
- Transdisciplinary transformation underway
- Scalability strategy identified
- Curriculum redesign challenge remains
- Who should own interactive computing stack?
Education empowers research
Scenario 2: Teams
- Curated interactive HPC
- Perfect-barrier data integration
- Explosively collaborative
- Accelerate knowledge mobilization
Examples
- Pangeo
- Callysto
- QuantEcon
- bcdata
- Data Science for Albertans
- UBC Scientific Software Seminar
- iReceptor
- 2018 Calgary PIMS Datathon
- Phytoplankton Photophysiology Workshop
- Many, many, many, many more examples…
Lessons Learned
- Interactive computing: a collaboration nexus
- Academy-Industry-Government-Nonprofit
- Interdisciplinary
- Citizen science; Data democracy
- Teams have heterogeneous requirements
- SSO, IP, data privacy
- CPU, GPU, FPGA, storage, memory
- Hub lifetimes: ephemeral to enduring
Scenario 3: Publishing
Nteracta
- Interactive computing format journals
- Open education resource (OER) infrastructure
Partners
Infrastructure Providers
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft
- Local metal
2i2c enables interactive computing hosted on commercial and local cloud infrastructure.
Who else?
Business Model
Startup funding sources
- 🇨🇦 New Frontiers Research Fund
- 🇨🇦 Strategic Innovation Fund Stream 5 (SIF5)
- 🇨🇦 Digital Technology Supercluster
- 🇺🇸 NSF Convergence Accelerator
- 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇺…?
- Philanthropic Organizations?
- Venture capital?
- Bootstrap?
Revenue Streams
- Interactive-Computing-as-a-Service
- Research grants subcontractor
- Training programs
- Publishing partnerships
Collaborate?
No entity should own interactive computing
2i2c
A corporation with a mission to support people engaged in interactive computing.
International Interactive Computing Collaboration
2i2c A corporation with a mission to support people engaged in interactive computing . International Interactive Computing Collaboration
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