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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

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:

  1. Higher education
  2. Teams
  3. 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

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

Acta

Nteracta

  • Interactive computing format journals
  • Open education resource (OER) infrastructure

Partners

Jupyter splash
PIMS splash
Plotly splash

Infrastructure Providers

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Local metal

2i2c enables interactive computing hosted on commercial and local cloud infrastructure.

Who else?

Business Model

Startup funding sources

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

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