Create a home with everything your community needs for data-driven discovery
We build and manage community hubs that provide access to all the tools needed to do their work, enabled with open infrastructure that ensures your Right to Replicate.
Provide easy access to community software and tools.
Provide the hardware and data resources available to your community.
Facilitate learning and sharing through community documentation.
We provide services to design, develop, and manage your community hub.
Management
Our cloud infrastructure team deploys and manages your hub infrastructure so that you can focus on your work.
Development
Our infrastructure team actively contributes to the open source community, ensuring our hubs, and your service, always benefit from the latest developments.
Guidance
Our cloud workflows team helps community leaders and their users learn how to make the most of your hub for impact.
Standard hub features
Below we outline our standard hub configuration options, which can be usually be deployed in 1 day or less. Should your community require a more customized approach, don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
Sign-in
We support the following authentication and authorization options:
- GitHub - with support for GitHub Organization and Teams
- CILogon - with support for institutional logins, Google Auth, Microsoft, and ORCID
- Shared Password - simple authentication with a global shared password, ideal for workshops and webinar
Compute
We offer a choice of CPU, Memory (from 4GB to 512GB) and GPU configurations for all types of workloads, with added support for Dask Gateway for task parallelization.
We can also co-locate your hub’s compute next to your cloud data to improve performance and costs, with AWS and Google Cloud Platform supported out-of-the-box, and Azure configurations available on request.
Software Stack
2i2c supports a number of standard community-maintained images for research and education including Pangeo Notebook, SciPy, Julia, and Rocker with RStudio.
Additionally, hub users can configure their hubs with any existing pre-built image hosted on Docker Hub or quay.io.
Hub administrators can also provide their own self-maintained images, should they wish to do so.
Storage
Hubs can be configured with a choice of persistent home directories and different levels of read-write permissions (admins only, or everyone).
Additionally, object storage can be configured for access to scratch, persistent, or pre-existing buckets, as needed.
Sharing
Learning and discovery through interactive cloud computing are more powerful when shared.
You can choose to let your hub users share their fully interactive projects through ephemeral hubs generated on the fly, giving others the opportunity to experience their work in full by simply clicking on a shared link.
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Our hubs come standard with Grafana access to help users and administrators keep an eye on their usage and cost analytics, which together with configurable storage quotas help ensure that cost overruns and unexpected bill shocks are a thing of the past.
