A global network of community hubs for interactive learning and discovery

Our interactive computing platform gives research and education communities a digital home to create and share knowledge with a global network of communities to learn from.

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We help communities build a home in the cloud for interactive computing

Our platform empowers community leaders in research and education to design a hub for their community to create and share knowledge. We do so by bringing together open tools, services, data, and infrastructure.

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Resource and user management

JupyterHub provides secure, remote access to the tools and resources needed for community users.
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Interfaces for interactive computing

JupyterHub lets users learn, explore, create, and share with open data and tools.
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A computational knowledge base

MyST and JupyterBook provide a central repository of knowledge to facilitate learning and sharing with computational narratives.

Community impact stories

Our platform integrates open tools and services for many communities in research and education. Below are some stories of impact from our community partners.

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Collaborating with Development Seed to deliver cyberinfrastructure for NASA VEDA

Collaborating with Development Seed to deliver cyberinfrastructure for NASA VEDA

Thank you to Sajjad Anwar and Sanjay Bhangar for contributing to this post. The VEDA dashboard The 2i2c team are proud to continue our strong working collaboration with Development Seed , following our previous work on launching the US GHG center (also see the Development Seed blog post ).

Openscapes Host a Surface Biology and Geology Workshop with Shared Password Feature

Openscapes Host a Surface Biology and Geology Workshop with Shared Password Feature

Thanks to Brianna Lind, Julia Lowndes and Andy Teucher for contributing to this blog post! Surface Biology and Geology: VITALS Workshop Openscapes is a value-based initiative that supports kinder, better science based on open source community.

Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud at Scipy 2024

Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud at Scipy 2024

Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud is a ScienceCore curriculum module that comprises part of NASA’s Open Science and Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiatives. The aim of this module is to deliver a hands-on experience with “data-proximate computing” in the cloud with NASA Earthdata products with content co-developed with MetaDocencia .

Enabling neuroscience in the cloud with HHMI Spyglass and MySQL on JupyterHub

Enabling neuroscience in the cloud with HHMI Spyglass and MySQL on JupyterHub

The HHMI Spyglass tutorial Spyglass # Spyglass is a framework for reproducible and shareable neuroscience research produced by Loren Frank’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Check out our blog post about the release of their preprint to read more about the methods.

Neurohackademy Summer School in Neuroimaging and Data Science 2024

Neurohackademy Summer School in Neuroimaging and Data Science 2024

Neurohackademy Summer School 2i2c are pleased to support the Neurohackademy Summer School in neuroimaging and data science again! Following the success of our collaboration in previous years (see the event page for 2023 ), this year’s course will be held July 29th – August 10th, 2024 and will be hosted by the University of Washington eScience Institute .

US Greenhouse Gas Center supports summer school at CIRA

US Greenhouse Gas Center supports summer school at CIRA

Summer school for inverse modeling of greenhouse gases 2024 The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere ( CIRA ) is an interdisciplinary cooperation between NOAA research scientists and Colorado State University.

Hacking the Project Pythia Cook-off with MyST Markdown

Hacking the Project Pythia Cook-off with MyST Markdown

Photo courtesy of Dr Debanjana Das What is Project Pythia? # Project Pythia is the education working group for Pangeo , a community platform for Big Data geoscience in which 2i2c operates a cloud hub.

Low storage alerting for the UToronto cluster

Low storage alerting for the UToronto cluster

The UToronto hub landing page 2i2c has operated The University of Toronto hub since 2021 and this hub supports over 6000 educators and learners in a day! With a community of this size, file storage can quickly grow out of control and cause issues.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute publishes preprint on Spyglass, a framework for reproducible and shareable neuroscience research

Howard Hughes Medical Institute publishes preprint on Spyglass, a framework for reproducible and shareable neuroscience research

Spyglass landing page Spyglass is a framework for reproducible and shareable neuroscience research produced by Loren Frank’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. They recently released a preprint about their toolbox, and are using a 2i2c hub to provide accessible interactive cloud environments that demonstrate its functionality and helps researchers get started.

Jupyter Book 2.0 will use MyST

Jupyter Book 2.0 will use MyST

See the Executable Books blog for a post on the future directions of the Jupyter Book project, which will be built on top of the MyST Markdown engine .

Researchers at LEAP-Pangeo investigate overlooked sub-grid air-sea heat flux in climate models

Researchers at LEAP-Pangeo investigate overlooked sub-grid air-sea heat flux in climate models

Figure from the preprint showing large and small scale air-sea fluxes are separated. By Julius Busecke et al., licensed under CC BY 4.0 Julius Busecke et al. of the LEAP-Pangeo 1 hub, have recently published a preprint2 that investigates “The Overlooked Sub-Grid Air-Sea Flux in Climate Models” using 2i2c infrastructure.

Security report for jupyter-server-proxy: CVE-2024-28179

Security report for jupyter-server-proxy: CVE-2024-28179

What happened? # A few weeks ago, the JupyterHub team discovered a security vulnerability in the jupyter-server-proxy package that would allow potential unauthenticated access to a JupyterHub via WebSockets, allowing unauthenticated users to run arbitrary code on the JupyterHub.

Integrating BinderHub with JupyterHub: Empowering users to manage their own environments

Integrating BinderHub with JupyterHub: Empowering users to manage their own environments

Thanks to Arnim Bleier , Jenny Wong , Georgiana Elena , Damián Avila , Jim Colliander and James Munroe for contributing to this blog post mybinder.org is a very popular service that allows end users to specify and share the environment (languages, packages, etc) required for their notebooks to run correctly by placing configuration files they are already familiar with (like requirements.

Digital public goods for Earth system management: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center launches

Digital public goods for Earth system management: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center launches

Abstract The International Interactive Computing Collaboration ( 2i2c.org ), working with NASA VEDA , Development Seed and other partners, operates an interactive computing platform for The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center.

A QGIS desktop in the cloud with JupyterHub

A QGIS desktop in the cloud with JupyterHub

The QGreenland Researcher Workshop JupyterHub is a versatile platform that can serve a desktop with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) software in the cloud. This was demonstrated by the QGreenland Researcher Workshop that was hosted by the NASA CryoCloud hub.

CILogon usage at 2i2c

CILogon usage at 2i2c

The following is a summary of how CILogon is used at 2i2c, how the integration works and a celebration of the partnership.

New project: Open science cloud infrastructure and training for communities in Latin America and Africa

New project: Open science cloud infrastructure and training for communities in Latin America and Africa

We are excited to announce that the team and proposal described in this blog post has been awarded funding by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ! This announcement may be cross-posted on the websites of several collaborating organizations of this grant.

GESIS - 2i2c collaborate to build a persistent BinderHub experience

GESIS - 2i2c collaborate to build a persistent BinderHub experience

Introduction # Mybinder.org enables researchers across the world to replicate computational environments in the cloud. It allows researchers to turn static code into interactive literate coding environments with a click of a button within seconds.

Grant progress report: CZI Foundational grant year 2

Grant progress report: CZI Foundational grant year 2

We recently completed a progress report for Year 2 of our primary CZI funding grant. This funding covers some core operations of 2i2c as well as engineering capacity to run our cloud infrastructure for JupyterHubs.

Open grant narrative: A Collaborative Interactive Computing Service Model for Global Communities

Open grant narrative: A Collaborative Interactive Computing Service Model for Global Communities

We recently submitted a grant to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and wish to share some details about it as well as the grant narrative for others to read and re-use. Go to Zenodo record Read on for a quick overview of the proposal.

Reflections on the Jack Eddy Symposium

Reflections on the Jack Eddy Symposium

Reflections on the Jack Eddy Symposium # 2i2c supported and participated in the 3rd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium held recently in Vail Colorado. The event was hosted by the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science ( CPAESS ) team at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ( UCAR ) with support from NASA.

Pangeo Cloud goes live on 2i2c!

Pangeo Cloud goes live on 2i2c!

2i2c are pleased to announce that the first Pangeo JupyterHub is now live on 2i2c-operated infrastructure! 🎉

2i2c partners with UC Berkeley and CloudBank to provide data science education hubs for community colleges in California

2i2c partners with UC Berkeley and CloudBank to provide data science education hubs for community colleges in California

Data8 . MIT licensed. Data8 began as a large introductory data science class at UC Berkeley. It uses a Jupyter Book for all course materials, and uses JupyterHub magic links to distribute course content from the textbook.

We serve a global network of communities

We serve over 80 communities across the globe with over 7000 active users that are dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge.

2i2c map of communities
A map of the rough location of communities with currently active hubs. Updated as of July 2024, see our interactive map for the latest data.

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We empower communities to share and learn.

Interactive computing hubs provide access to standardized workflows that make it easier for community members to teach and share with one another, and to enhance their work together.

How communities improve with shared infrastructure.

We make open source tools more impactful

Our global network gives us a unique perspective to identify high-impact improvements to open source tools. We collaborate with open source communities to make upstream enhancements, and re-deploy the improved tools to the communities in our network.

The lifecycle of upstream development

Grounded in open principles so communities can trust us as stewards of critical scientific workflows.

Transparency

Our transparent and participatory model keeps our incentives aligned with community needs.

Empowerment

Our service gives communities agency to design the service they need, and to manage it without 2i2c if they wish.

Sustainability

Our service should have a self-sustaining model that ensures continuity, growth, and funder independence.

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